2012-2013 Albany Medical College Application Thread
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just submitted 🙂. hopefully this school gives me some good news soon....i desperately need it!
Has the status page acknowledged this by any chance? Just wondering if it updates automatically or if it requires a person to actually input the info in, because I may have submitted incorrectly.
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Mine still says pending and I submitted yesterday. I think you're fine for now.
Submitted! Good luck everyone! Hopefully they send out some interview invites in August
Same and I submitted on 7/31
I have everything but it says I'm not rdy for review yet
You have letters marked as received too?
+1, hopefully tomorrow we will be under review!
Yup
Yes, spaces count.
Feels like I am writing an online dating profile for this secondary.
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Anybody complete yet?
I'm complete and ready to be reviewed
I'm complete and ready to be reviewed
When did you submit?
Submitted 7/31
Do you think they necessarily have to be experiences during undergrad?
well. speaking for myself, I'm not sharing about something during undergrad. I wrote about my experiences I've gotten after graduation
My status says:
Yes-supplemental application received
Yes-fee received
Yes-MCAT scores received
No-Application complete
So they received everything...but I'm not complete? Is this normal? Anyone else have this status? I submitted on 7/31 too.
Yes-supplemental application received
Yes-fee received
Yes-MCAT scores received
No-Application complete
So they received everything...but I'm not complete? Is this normal? Anyone else have this status? I submitted on 7/31 too.
I have the same, I submitted the same time too
Prob pending them uploading your LOR
Thanks, I feel a little more at ease then. Hopefully we'll both be complete soon.
Okay, yeah. That may be it, cause I think they said letters take like 10 days to upload.
I was confused cause it said Letters of Recommendation Received under the status too. Hopefully it just needs to be processed and then I'll be good to go.
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+2. No more secondaries!!!!!!! Hoorayyyyyy
anyone else getting a ton of errors when trying to submit payment online?
Yup. happened to me too. "TRACKINGID coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedVariableException:... blah blah blah"
Yeah, me too. Glad to know I'm not the only one.
Do you think it is just a problem with the albany system? I can't get my credit card to go through. Are you just going to wait it out?
Yeah, I think it's just an issue with Albany. They seem to use their own proprietary payment system. I sent them an email, but they're probably already aware of the problem.
It sucks to delay my app like this, but I'm probably just gonna wait it out until the site gets fixed.
Edit: got an email back. It says: " We are currently experiencing a computer glitch with the online payment system, which our programmer is working to resolve. Please try to access the site later today."
It sucks to delay my app like this, but I'm probably just gonna wait it out until the site gets fixed.
Edit: got an email back. It says: " We are currently experiencing a computer glitch with the online payment system, which our programmer is working to resolve. Please try to access the site later today."
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I was complete on 7/28 and received my secondary on 8/6. I would guess yours is coming any day now.
is anyone completed here? i still have a "no" next to the "Application complete and ready for review by our Admissions Committee"
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Same here, and I submitted the first day I got it 🙁.
There was somebody above who is complete for like a week now though.
So kind of a long story, but I need advice- and quick!
I got an email saying that I opted to include both my committee letter and individual letters on my secondary, and I have to choose one or the other. They said I can choose the committee letter, but that will be the only one in my file (so they wouldn't see my strong volunteer/employer letters), or I can choose to include 4 individual letters (some volunteer/employer and some from undergrad profs).
But the website says "The Admissions Committee prefers a composite letter from a premedical advisor or committee. For students attending schools that do not provide this service, individual letters from faculty may be substituted." I have a committee letter, so would it look bad if I didn't include it since my institution provided it? I just have strong "other" letters and want them to see those.
Help!! I have to respond to her soon.
I got an email saying that I opted to include both my committee letter and individual letters on my secondary, and I have to choose one or the other. They said I can choose the committee letter, but that will be the only one in my file (so they wouldn't see my strong volunteer/employer letters), or I can choose to include 4 individual letters (some volunteer/employer and some from undergrad profs).
But the website says "The Admissions Committee prefers a composite letter from a premedical advisor or committee. For students attending schools that do not provide this service, individual letters from faculty may be substituted." I have a committee letter, so would it look bad if I didn't include it since my institution provided it? I just have strong "other" letters and want them to see those.
Help!! I have to respond to her soon.
Interesting Predicament. Although the website says they "prefer" committee packets, I would go with the strongest letters in your file. At the end of the day, what matters is the impact the letter makes vs the style it comes in. If it helps any, most people I know didn't do a committee packet at all
I emailed them about this about 2 months ago. They replied saying that while I COULD do it, they did not recommend it and it is frowned upon. So I would just send the committee.
But that's just me 🙂
But that's just me 🙂
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