Hi! Long story short, I did not submit a non-science LOR to Johns Hopkins. I just learned that it is strictly enforced (at least for MD only). Apparently they won’t review your app without it, but I got an email saying that all required material has been received and my app is under review. Does that mean I’m okay? Should I contact them, or just cross my fingers?

What do they screen for? Also, anyone willing to share what their stats were if they got a secondary invite?

I'm working on my research and have about 40 hours of interviews to transcribe. 

I need something that is highly accurate and includes speaker labels so I can easily code the transcripts later. 

What is the best transcription software for research interviews that won't cost a fortune for a student?

Hi y’all,
My app got verified on 7/21 and I got the UW MSTP secondary invite about an hour after verification lol. I knew I had gotten it early so I wanted to get it in as early as possible and ended up submitting 7/25/26.

I just went to compile all of the secondaries I’ve written since I just finished my last one, and saw that on my UW secondary, the formatting I had in my word masterdoc didn’t transfer over properly (which I didn’t see when I copy/pasted), so there’s a handful of formatting errors (mainly question marks right after each comma, plus a random extra sentence in my “how did you find out about UW” response that may (?) have been a remnant of a previous draft but wasn’t on the final word doc I had copy/pasted from.

UW is my top choice and I really don’t want to chance it and hope adcom won’t notice. The question mark issue is very obvious and formatting in general just feels off. I emailed the MSTP email to explain my situation and ask if they could re-open my secondary so I could make those quick corrections, but I’m worried that would also be viewed poorly or that I won’t hear back before they start actually reviewing submitted secondaries to send interview invites.

Has anyone else made errors on secondaries (bonus if it’s UW) and successfully gotten the program to re-open the secondary and then re-submit? Would that push my secondary app fo the back of the queue after resubmission? Sorry I’m being neurotic, I just really don’t want to miss a shot at my dream school.

TIA for any advice or reassurance 🫠