Premed03 Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 I noticed a comment in another thread saying that people applying through AMCAS should submit their application early. Why is this so, and when would be the safest deadline? The school I am looking into applying has November 1st as its deadline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethToronto Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 Read the threads. This has been discussed extensively. "Rolling admissions" means early AMCAS submission is important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 I noticed a comment in another thread saying that people applying through AMCAS should submit their application early. Why is this so, and when would be the safest deadline? The school I am looking into applying has November 1st as its deadline. US schools are not like Canadian schools. In Canada, all files are reviewed after the submission deadline and interviewees are selected. In the US, applications are reviewed and interviews and acceptances are granted as applications are received. Say a school starts off with 100 seats and interviews a few applicants in September and ends up granting 25 students admission in October. You submit your application later (say October) and your file is reviewed in late October or early November. Instead of trying for 1 out of the 100 seats, you're trying for 1 out of only 75 now. Hence, the admissions committee becomes more stringent on who they invite for interviews as the application cycle progresses because there are fewer seats left. Therefore, it is in your best interest to get your application completed as early as possible. The earlier you apply, the more likely you are to get an interview and a subsequent acceptance. You should submit your AMCAS application NOW (they started accepting submissions last week), even if the deadline may be in November. It takes a few weeks to get your AMCAS application verified and in the mean time, you can complete secondary applications for many schools. Hope this makes sense. I totally made up the numbers I used above to illustrate how rolling admissions works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 If you submit your AMCAS in mid-july, it wont be verified until end of july/early august. your secondaries wont be complete until end of august... so it's not "late" but it's not early either. submitting your primary (AMCAS) any later than end of july/early august is getting late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 From SDN: Ready for review in June/july - early Ready for review in August - ok (not early and not late) Ready for review in sept onwards - late Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cling Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Sorry I am a newb here, but what is getting "Reviewed"? Just your essay and activities and grades? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worriedandwaiting Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 On the AMCAS application, you input your grades and courses. During the review period, AMCAS compares what you inputed to your transcript and converts the grades to the AMCAS gpa system to calculate your GPA, Science GPA, etc. THis time can be about 2-6 weeks, depending on the number of applicants waiting to be reviewed at that time. THe longer you wait to submit , the more backlog there will be for your application to be reviewed. Sorry I am a newb here, but what is getting "Reviewed"?Just your essay and activities and grades? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 On the AMCAS application, you input your grades and courses. During the review period, AMCAS compares what you inputed to your transcript and converts the grades to the AMCAS gpa system to calculate your GPA, Science GPA, etc. THis time can be about 2-6 weeks, depending on the number of applicants waiting to be reviewed at that time. THe longer you wait to submit , the more backlog there will be for your application to be reviewed. ? 2-6 weeks? many on SDN reported that they were all done that within days. 2-6 weeks if you submit maybe late in july Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 ?2-6 weeks? many on SDN reported that they were all done that within days. 2-6 weeks if you submit maybe late in july i submitted august 2nd the year i applied, took 3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 i submitted august 2nd the year i applied, took 3 weeks. that sounds about right. Those that submitted as early as late june, it took around 6 days. Those who submitted later took a lot longer. Another reason to submit early! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jixe Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Will AMCAS begin transcript review even if we haven't submitted the application? I had my university forward my transcript last week, but have yet to submit my application. I'm looking to submit my AMCAS application by the end of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Will AMCAS begin transcript review even if we haven't submitted the application? I had my university forward my transcript last week, but have yet to submit my application. I'm looking to submit my AMCAS application by the end of the month. That's what I did this year. They had my transcript before I submitted my application and it was already reviewed by the time I submitted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saberial Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I did not attach the TRF when I ordered my transcripts, do you folks think this will be a problem? Should I just order new ones with the TRF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRRF Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Is it bad to take MCAT in August then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Is it bad to take MCAT in August then? your application wont be reviewed by individual schools until MCAT scores are received. it WILL be reviewed by AMCAS and sent to each school...but review for interviews will be held up. its the same as applying late. so...its up to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cling Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Hrm... what if I already have a a good MCAT score for the schools I applied to, but I am writing in Sept so I could be competitive at Canadian schools? Should I just not say that I am writing the MCAT again on the AMCAS "upocoming mcat" section? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redribbon Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 whether or not you state you're re-writing them, once the new scores come in, AAMC automatically sends them to the medical schools you applied to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cling Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 yeah, but the point is that I don't want the committee to wait for the other scores...I want the advantage of applying early Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worriedandwaiting Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 I suppose you could say that. But AMCAS does the processing for both the American admissions as well as the MCAT, so I don't know if it would work. as in, they'd be like .. well we see that you've signed up for the september mcat, so we'll have to make that correction on the application for you? (i'm not sure about this, just guessing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRRF Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 your application wont be reviewed by individual schools until MCAT scores are received. it WILL be reviewed by AMCAS and sent to each school...but review for interviews will be held up. its the same as applying late. so...its up to you. So when is the latest I can write the MCAT so that I don't hold up my review from schools? I thought they start looking at applicants in November or something :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 So when is the latest I can write the MCAT so that I don't hold up my review from schools?I thought they start looking at applicants in November or something :S They start looking at applications as soon as the application is considered complete. Interviews are held as early as September. I suggest writing the MCAT so that your scores are available/released sometime in August at the latest (I dont know how long it takes for scores to come out w/the new computer format). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavanshir Posted June 21, 2008 Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 They start looking at applications as soon as the application is considered complete. Interviews are held as early as September. I suggest writing the MCAT so that your scores are available/released sometime in August at the latest (I dont know how long it takes for scores to come out w/the new computer format). ........30 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRRF Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 So I should write in late June/early July? Sorry...I don't know anything about the application but how does the order work. Do you send in your application with your grades+mcat+biographical sketch, and then get an interview? What is post-secondary? Is that school-specific stuff you do after you receive an interview but before you attend it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 So I should write in late June/early July? Sorry...I don't know anything about the application but how does the order work. Do you send in your application with your grades+mcat+biographical sketch, and then get an interview? What is post-secondary? Is that school-specific stuff you do after you receive an interview but before you attend it? here is a post that outlines the general process: http://www.premed101.com/forums/showpost.php?p=234439&postcount=9 1) if it takes 30 days to get your marks, then i'd say yes write in late june/early july 2) first you complete amcas application, send in your transcript to amcas, mcat scores will be released once available to the schools you choose to apply to and now apparently reference letters go to AMCAS? 3) once amcas is submitted you will receive your secondary applications - some arrive right after submitting, others will arrive after amcas has been verified. secondary applications have additional questions, prereq info, more fees. 4) once secondaries are complete and reviewed by the committees, you are invited for interview. 5) post-secondary??? depends what you're referring to. post-secondary grades means every grade you've received since high school. post-secondary in terms of application..is something after you've completed the secondary application...the only think i can think of that fits that is the interview. hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetandu Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Gotta question about AMCAS submissions. I was wondering when everybody submitted their primaries and when they received confirmation that its been sent out to the selected schools. Its been a week for me, submitted it June 17th and my primary hasn't even went through. My status is "Submitted to AMCAS - Ready for Review" and its been like that for about 5 days now. Suggestions, comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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