[XOMichelle]

Today I sent my letters of recommendation to all the schools that have given me a secondary. Yea!

I have finished 5 apps:
Jefferson, NYMC, MCW, GW, Northwestern. This week my goal is to finish Irvine, USC, Ohio State and Boston Univeristy.

ps- I wanted to say, athough this looks like way too much for grad school, this is fairly normal for the med school application process. A lot of schools get 5,000 primary applications for 150 spots. They narrow it down a little with secondaries (although schools like GW and BU don't- they give secondaries to everyone). It's at the interview stage where they really make big cuts. A school might send out 2,000 secondaries and interview 400 people for a class of 150 (so they'd give out 150 accepts, and a probably 100-150 wait list spots). So, the trick is to fill out as many secondaries as possible to get to the interview stage. If you get on a wait list, you can move yourself up by writing letters to the schools on why they are your first choice.