This makes the total number of applications high, forcing schools to weed out unacceptable applicants with a preliminary round.
"No medical school wants to produce doctors that kill," McClelland says. "The minimal standards are very high."
If students are selected to submit a secondary application, they are faced with another fee, which could range from $40 to $95. This additional cost infuriates many applicants, who say the secondary form rarely asks for more information than the preliminary application did.
"Why am I filling out this secondary?" McClelland says. "They just want more money from me."
But he was lucky enough to reach all 21 schools' second round, meaning he had to shell out $1,250 more.
By the time he had started his senior year, McClelland had shelled out over $2,500 to apply to medical school.
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