The Official August/September Registration Thread

[akernoha]

Finally... deep breath.... registered for September 8th in London...after three days of trying... Good luck to everyone else!

[AMmd]

wow you guys registered so late.. makes me wonder if i should have registered later too

[roycer]

Still no luck for me. Any advice for successful people on this forum? I think I am going crazy...

[DrEvil]

8 am London Sept 8...got mine at 12:30 pm. It wasn't hard for me. I just clicked on the link and it was available. Maybe I was lucky. A friend on mine did the same thing 20 mins later and found seats available. I wonder why noone wants London at 8am? hmm

Evil

[roycer]

aclementine...I keep getting the "No Seats Available" message? I live in Manitoba and want to have an Aug. 20, Sept. 7 or Sept. 8 seating.

[smile]

September 7 at 12pm in Kitchener

[smile]

i literally gave up and then i got a call from a friend who got a spot in kitchener on sept 7 so i tried a couple times and bang i got it.

[Shiranai]

I have mainly been lurking, but after much frustration, I decided to follow suit with those registering in London (and I did manage to get a spot--which is quite exhilarating!). (I am from BC by the way, so I guess that it will be like a vacation for me).

[roycer]

I just emailed AAMC to see if there are still seats available in Manitoba on those dates. I hope that I'm still seeing an incorrect error message and that there are still seats open!

[asteur]

I still don't have a seat in Canada...

But I do have a new beef with the AAMC...there are multiple test sites for Edmonton in May, June, and July

Not in August or September

 

geniuses

 

same with halifax. i don't understand. why would they think more people would write in may than in august?!

[Blah!]

yea I got a seat in kitchener for sept 8th. But the problem is that if u write it on sept 8th - you dont make the OMSAS deadline because apparently they only accept August MCATs for the 2008-2009 academic yr!

[Nima123]

yea I got a seat in kitchener for sept 8th. But the problem is that if u write it on sept 8th - you dont make the OMSAS deadline because apparently they only accept August MCATs for the 2008-2009 academic yr!

 

You do, score release date is Oct 10. OMSAS will have to accomadate for these dates, and I'm sure they will.

[Jixe]

Unrelated, but for August and September writers, I'm sure you will all be scaled together.

[Blah!]

You do, score release date is Oct 10. OMSAS will have to accomadate for these dates, and I'm sure they will.

 

Has anyone contacted OMSAS to be sure ? Because I doubt they wud move the deadline just to accomodate us... that is so unlike them!

[radhika]

Has anyone contacted OMSAS to be sure ? Because I doubt they wud move the deadline just to accomodate us... that is so unlike them!

 

http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/datesdeadlines.pdf

the website says that we will get it by oct 10 and the deadline to release scores is 13th..its cutting close but thats what tyey say..

[radhika]

did the ones who have written it before receive the scores by the date mentioned?

[kalia]

i called omsas today. they said those ppl writing in sept are eligible to apply for med school this coming year (i.e. when applications come out this july, they are eligible to apply). they said that the deadline for releasing mcat scores to the schools is around mid-october, but there hasn't been a set date yet. so no worries, unless of course, aamc messes up and releases the scores way past the oct 10 date, then we might be a bit screwed.

 

hope that helped

 

kalia

[bsgfan]

it seems like lots of people got spots to write the mcat in sept in kitchener...how bout in august?

[The Law]

it seems like lots of people got spots to write the mcat in sept in kitchener...how bout in august?

 

I know people who got Aug too for Kitchener. Gah I just want aug 9 in mississauga!

[etoile]

long time lurker with bad news for those who haven't registered...

 

I emailed AAMC today regarding the "no seat available" message we've been receiving for the past 3 weeks, and this is the reply I got:

 

The MCAT registration system is currently working correctly. If a specific location states that, there are no seats available, at that moment there are no seats available. If you continue to experience this issue, you may want to consider registering at another testing site, or registering for another date or time. You may also want to continuously check your desired testing location because a seat may become available in the future.

 

I still haven't managed to register either Good luck, everyone

[kalia]

don't give up etoile. if worse comes to worse, the us mcat registration begins on saturday, so u can always try there. try new york, cuz they have so many testing centres, there might be a chance u might get something.

 

sincerely,

 

kalia

[roycer]

etoile, I haven't been able to register either. I haven't been able to find seats anywhere else in Canada as well, I keep on getting the "No Seats Available" message. AAMC earlier today said that many of those messages are incorrect, and that I should keep trying. I emailed them just now to make sure that there are still seats available.

[Gavanshir]

i knew it.

[etoile]

I emailed them just now to make sure that there are still seats available.

 

That's exactly what I asked... "Are all the existing venues full in August, or are the "no seats available" message still incorrect?" Their response came at 4:14 this afternoon.

 

The truth is, I don't mind booking in the US after Saturday. I just wanted to know if it's worth waiting for a spot here, and whether they plan to add more venues in Canada. My concern arose from the fact that each venue only accomodates 15 or 30 people (according to one of my friend who registered in Toronto), and that many people have already secured a spot.

[Gavanshir]

Can't we collectively request that they add more testing sites?