Good luck everyone 🍀🤞! Feel free to DM if you have any questions about applying to BU

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Anyone having trouble getting into the secondary portal post creating log in?

Anyone still without a secondary?

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BU sent out their secondary mid-July last year; they are not super fast with sending them out, so I recommend just prewriting and waiting. But be mindful that quality>timing, they reject very fast instead of ghosting! Best wishes!

W info its probably hard for you to know this but do you know how much they prioritize casper

I actually dug a lot into BU when I applied, so the CASPER is not important in the grand scheme of sending II or making acceptance decisions. It's more of a data point that gets gathered. The only scenario where it might hurt you is if you score 1/2 quartile and then during the interview you act in an immature/arrogant/unlikeable manner, then that score becomes an extra data point to make you less competitive for acceptance.

In the 2021 cycle, BU first incorporated Casper as an extra data point to extrapolate teamwork, empathy, and communication skills because it is hard to get that straight from the primary application.

3 years later, in 2024, after analyzing the data, Dean Goodell said it is now a minor factor. They found only a slight correlation between the Casper score and the interview score/final decision to admit, but it is very slim. They are now trying to see if Casper score coorrelate with med student performance and will adjust the importance of CASPER based on the results.

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9DLj4MmUFo&t=120s @33:10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y8fcPQzuHg @23:00

+1 oos md secondary received