<p>I’ve been told that, with certain medical schools, this is true. Can anybody confirm? </p>
<p>In other words, if you get a secondary app, you definitely will get an interview…</p>
<p>Absolutely not true.</p>
<p>Even with schools that send out screened secondaries, getting one is no guarantee of anything.</p>
<p>^The cynic in me says:</p>
<p>Well, it IS a guarantee of more revenue for the schools that send it ;)</p>
<p>About 10-12 years ago Wash U discovered a virtual bonanza in increased revenue from their undergrad marketing plan… don’t see this practice to be all that different.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt does that in reverse. They send out interview invites via snail mail, and in that letter you are asked to then fill out the secondary, so the only secondaries they request are the invitees. I think that’s nice of them to not to send out secondaries strictly for revenue.</p>
<p>We read somewhere online (can’t remember where) that West Virginia only sends secondaries to those they plan to interview. No personal experience to verify.</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill SOM sends secondaries to in-state interviewees ONLY. So if you are in-state NC resident and you receive a secondary from them you have an interview. Not true though for OOS. They will get a secondary and then get screened again. </p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Nebraska screens their secondaries rigorously for OOS and somewhat less so for IS. But if you get a secondary, it is also an interview invite. This is the only school I have seen that does this from the ones I applied to.</p>