Metadata entry on grouped images in Aperture

Lots of times I drag a dozen or so photos from the desktop to Aperture. They will all have identical metadata (well, the custom ones, anyway): all are keyword 'Plant Material', and all are the same 'Genus species'.
Selecting them in Aperture doesn't apply metadata to all of the images. It's still one at a time and as I have thousands I am wondering if there is a way for Aperture to apply metadata to more than one image at once?
Michael

That works perfectly, of course. When you are importing hundreds of groups, though, it's just faster to type; the type-ahead feature is your friend here.
I tried presets, but as best as I can tell, presets don't work with dragged imports.
I am certain there is a way to do this. Thanks for helping!

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