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I've posted this before, and I'm sure i'll post it again at some point during this cycle, but chill out.
Seriously, its the beginning of September, and there's already threads of people asking how many IIs they should have. By any standard, it is still very early in the cycle. Some schools won't even begin interviewing until october, others have just started interviewing now. As LizzyM has posted before, if Thanksgiving comes and you still haven't heard anything, then you can start worrying. That means you have almost 3 months until you can reasonably start thinking about sending update letters. SDN has a really strong selection bias, meaning that most of the people that post here are going to post their positive results. For every post you see of someone with 21 IIs (looking at you @doctorbob23) There are at least 100 people who haven't heard anything at all yet. As they say, it isn't over, till it's over. Unless you have hard rejections from 50% of your school list, you have nothing to worry about at the moment.
Seriously, its the beginning of September, and there's already threads of people asking how many IIs they should have. By any standard, it is still very early in the cycle. Some schools won't even begin interviewing until october, others have just started interviewing now. As LizzyM has posted before, if Thanksgiving comes and you still haven't heard anything, then you can start worrying. That means you have almost 3 months until you can reasonably start thinking about sending update letters. SDN has a really strong selection bias, meaning that most of the people that post here are going to post their positive results. For every post you see of someone with 21 IIs (looking at you @doctorbob23) There are at least 100 people who haven't heard anything at all yet. As they say, it isn't over, till it's over. Unless you have hard rejections from 50% of your school list, you have nothing to worry about at the moment.