AAMC says my MCAT score is till not loaded

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Camy99

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I took it back in April, and the scores are still not there. The scores do show up on my DO app so idk what's going on...
If anything, I'm going to be retaking it in July and that's on there. Do I need to do something additional, since I'm going to submit before my new scores come in?

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I'm not sure what to do since it says on the MCAT release page, "All your scores are available to the AMCAS schools." which made me think it was automatic. I chose AAMCOMAS on the drop-down menu of application services but AMCAS is not one of them.
 
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It should be automatic--something is wrong with yours. I think the THx page has a link for who to contact to troubleshoot. Be sure to get it figured out asap.
 
aw great. Well I'll send an email then.
 
aw great. Well I'll send an email then.

The problem with not having that MCAT score loaded to your schools is that many will not send out secondary applications without one. My MCAT date was in late July and roughly 1/2 of the schools I applied to had an internal MCAT minimum score cutoff that I could not meet since I had never taken the MCAT. So rather than working on all of them while I waited for my score to be released, I had to wait for allot of them until that score came out. So yeah make sure you hound them to get that score released.👍

Btw, that minimum cutoff score varies by school but typically somewhere around the mid 20s.
 
It should be automatic. If not, bug them until it appears.
 
i had the same problem. i called them and it turned out i had accidentally made two AAMC accounts - one for my AMCAS and one for my MCAT. they had to put in a request to their supervisor to merge my accounts. but it turned out fine!
 
Ugh this is such a Why Me moment. I emailed and they haven't gotten back. Next step: Call AMCAS right? Or is there a more specific department... The THx page only had the email.
Now that you mention it, I wonder if I have 2 accounts. I've some how ended up with 2 e-mcat accounts so I wouldn't be surprised if I had 2 amcas accounts too -_-"
 
i had the same problem. i called them and it turned out i had accidentally made two AAMC accounts - one for my AMCAS and one for my MCAT. they had to put in a request to their supervisor to merge my accounts. but it turned out fine!

This happened to me as well. They merged the accounts and it was fine.

Check the AMCAS ID# that is displayed on your AMCAS application and the # displayed on the page when you check your MCAT score. If they're different just call AMCAS and let them know that you have two accounts. Only took them a day to merge them for me.
 
Ugh this is such a Why Me moment. I emailed and they haven't gotten back. Next step: Call AMCAS right? Or is there a more specific department... The THx page only had the email.
Now that you mention it, I wonder if I have 2 accounts. I've some how ended up with 2 e-mcat accounts so I wouldn't be surprised if I had 2 amcas accounts too -_-"
I would just call ASAP.

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I'm just gonna go ahead and rant now...

You guys were right I have two ID#s. So I called and asked for them to merge. Apparently since I will be retaking my MCAT 07/27, they want me to wait until 07/29 to ask them to merge or else my new mcat score will be lost...
The guy said I could go ahead and submit now to at least one school to get verified, but then I have to call the school and let them know I do have an mcat score and will be getting another mcat score in a few months.
Just ugh, I don't enjoy making a gazillion phone calls. Anyways, thanks for letting me know what do guys 🙂

Now I need to figure out who'll be the lucky school I'll basically be giving myself an automatic rejection from. Can't do state schools... :/
 
Actually it should not really change things too much. You really don't want to be working on secondary applications before your MCAT test date, you need to be studying. When you do add all your schools, you should get the majority of secondary applications right away since you already have a MCAT score (with the exception of those few schools that still pre-screen). So during August you can fill out and return those before your MCAT score is released and you will be "complete" at most of your schools on the day your MCAT score is released. Schools won't review your file anyway until you have that second MCAT score, so no real harm done.

If you truly don't want to deal with all the phone calls, just pick a burn school, add them to your primary and don't bother calling the school nor returning their secondary application. Rush and Duke are a couple schools that come to mind that are probably used to applicants deciding not to return their quite lengthy secondaries. All schools cost the same on the primary application, and it's pretty inexpensive compared to what you will be spending in a couple months. Use the time to study instead.
 
Mississippi is always a popular choice. If you are OOS you are automatically rejected from there.

+1. I actually spoke to someone in their admissions department and they basically told me I could take them to dinner, but not to expect a kiss goodnight or a second date. If you know what I mean.
 
Haha I think I'll try to pick a school that may have at least /some/ chance of getting into, or that may be willing to wait for an update.
 
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