secondary turn around time?

h-bomber
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:20:12 +0000

I received my verified AMCAS on Monday the 14 of July. As might be expected, I got a flood of secondaries in the next few days. The only problem is that I work seven days per week in my lab (9am-6pm) and don’t have very much time to write essays.

So far I’ve only gotten six secondaries out, writing four essays to do so. I know have thirteen more core essays (and 23 permutations of them) left to write to finish off the rest of the secondaries. I’ve heard that you should shoot for a turnaround time of two weeks for your secondaries. Is this something I should absolutely stick to? Would three weeks be alright? Basically my choices are to either pull a week of consecutive all nighters to get everything out by the two week deadline or to stretch it out to three weeks.

Thanks for the input!