I see…so if I pre-wrote secondaries, couldn't I technically be complete by July 25th (even with an MCAT score submission on July 21st)? Most of the secondaries tend to be the same right…
If I was complete in this manner, then I wouldn't be at such a disadvantage that I would be better off waiting a year to apply right?
HMM. . . perhaps. Let's say you timed it so well that your verification finished at July 20th, got your score at July 21st, and received a secondary within a week. Yes, absolutely. I say verify about a week from your anticipated score release and you'll be able to get your secondaries early than my aforementioned predictions.
Also, do you know if there's any way I can find out this info? Like which school screen and which don't?
It seems there are more schools that screen than I anticipated... : (
Public
Central Michigan: GPA 3.25 / MCAT 24
Cooper Rowan: "We have accepted candidates with MCAT scores below 24 or GPAs below 3.0 whose experiences and history were exceptional."
East Carolina U (0.0% OOS matriculants in 2012)
East Tennessee State
Eastern Virginia
Florida Atlantic (only screens for felony convictions – sorry, all you hopeful premed felons)
Florida State: "We have no minimum requirements for [GPA and MCAT] scores."
Indiana U
Louisiana State, New Orleans
Louisiana State, Shreveport
Marshall: 3.0 GPA / 22 MCAT
Oakland Beaumont: sGPA 3.00 / cGPA 3.2 / MCAT 24
Southern Illinois (0.0% OOS matriculants in 2012)
U of Toledo
U of Arizona Phoenix
UC Davis (0.0% OOS matriculants in 2012)
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Riverside
UCSD
UCSF
U of Central Florida
U of Hawai'i
U of Illinois
U of Iowa Carver: 2.5 GPA
U of Kentucky
U of Louisville
U of Minnesota
U of Mississippi (0.0% OOS matriculants in 2012): GPA 2.8 / MCAT 21
U of Missouri-Columbia
U of Nevada
U of New Mexico
UNC Chapel Hill
U of South Dakota
U of Tennessee
U of Utah: sGPA 3.2 / cGPA 3.2
U of Washington
U of Wisconsin
Virginia Commonwealth
Wayne State
West Virginia U: "The committee reserves the privilege to consider an applicant with a GPA lower than a 3.2 if there are other circumstances."
Private
Quinnipiac
Hofstra: 3.0 GPA / 25 MCAT
Loyola
Mayo
Meharry
Mercer (does not accept non-Georgia applicants)
Morehouse: 2.0 GPA
Vanderbilt: "The School does not require a minimum GPA or minimum MCAT score, but intense competition tends to eliminate applicants with low GPA's and/or MCAT scores."
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Western Michigan: 3.25 GPA / 24 MCAT
Source:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/schools-that-screen-secondaries.1019562/
Hmm, okay.. Remind me -- (1) Can you submit your AMCAS without any LORs [I think so, but I did this in 2012 last]? and (2) Can you submit your AMCAS and get verified without adding any particular school? Or, if you want to "wait", submit some school you don't care about and then add?
1) Yes. You can submit without LOR. You don't even need LOR yet in order to get secondary. You just need all the LOR sent to AMCAS and for AMCAS to send it to all the schools before you can complete your secondary application. Should take couple days if you can get the letter send to amcas digitally. But it'll take weeks if you decide to use snail mail.
2) I think you have to indicate at least 1 school prior to verification. After you get verified, you can add in the rest of the schools later.