AMCAS and Dual Degree/Excessive Credits

[LFC85]

I have a question regarding AMCAS and a dual undergraduate degree. In short, I am earning two bachelor's degrees simultaneously, as opposed to double majoring. Do I make these entries separately as two degrees from the same school, since that is in fact what I'm earning (a B.A. and a B.S.), or are they all to be entered as one? I only see examples from AMCAS and threads on here regarding bachelors and masters dual degree programs.

My second question, contingent on the answer to the first question, is as follows: I am graduating with an excessive amount of credits (185 credits) from three schools (it's a long story). Following the AMCAS policy for that as listed, I will have a "senior year" of 95 credits; is this correct? Can I enter that much into AMCAS in the senior year category?

Thank you all in advance for the advice, I am trying to sort all of this out.

I greatly appreciate it.

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[jeghaber]

I have a question regarding AMCAS and a dual undergraduate degree. In short, I am earning two bachelor's degrees simultaneously, as opposed to double majoring. Do I make these entries separately as two degrees from the same school, since that is in fact what I'm earning (a B.A. and a B.S.), or are they all to be entered as one? I only see examples from AMCAS and threads on here regarding bachelors and masters dual degree programs.

My second question, contingent on the answer to the first question, is as follows: I am graduating with an excessive amount of credits (185 credits) from three schools (it's a long story). Following the AMCAS policy for that as listed, I will have a "senior year" of 95 credits; is this correct? Can I enter that much into AMCAS in the senior year category?

Thank you all in advance for the advice, I am trying to sort all of this out.

I greatly appreciate it.

I had 186 credits listed on my AMCAS (lol, it sounds like I'm literally trying to "one-up" you, OP -- I'm not I promise! 😛) and just listed courses according to when I took them or when credit was was assigned. Nothing was changed in terms of designated "year" from submission to verification. Unless you have significantly different GPAs between academic years, I'd just input courses as you took them and let AMCAS change things if they see fit -- I doubt it will be cause for any significant delay.

As for the BA/BS dual degree, I'm not sure what the policy on that. My guess is that you should just enter them under the same university program, but of someone has more direct first-hand information on that, feel free to correct me.

 

[LFC85]

Thanks a lot for the reply - I'll have to come up with another two credits to one up you!

What you said makes a lot of sense, and seems like the most reasonable way to go about it. My issue is that the first two schools were community colleges, so they didn't assign me Freshman or Sophomore status on my transcript. There is in fact a huge difference between GPA's, and it would absolutely be in my favor if there wasn't so much "spill over" into my last two years (that is, earlier credits being entered in as Junior and Senior due to the 1-30,31-60,61-90,91-120 designation.)
In reality, these grades *are* in my first two academic years, and comprise my associate's degree (I kept repeating courses or taking random courses). However, according to AMCAS' designation of credit years, those credits would run all the way into my senior year.

In sum, my first two years took 6 years to complete, and are my worst years . I was lazy, obviously unfocused, and simply drifting aimlessly through school. When I transferred to a four year, my grades went up drastically and I've maintained that since, and will be completing two degrees with a minor in an effort to show that I've made serious changes. I'd like to be able to reflect that somehow.

Thanks again.

 

[karayaa]

Thanks a lot for the reply - I'll have to come up with another two credits to one up you!

What you said makes a lot of sense, and seems like the most reasonable way to go about it. My issue is that the first two schools were community colleges, so they didn't assign me Freshman or Sophomore status on my transcript. There is in fact a huge difference between GPA's, and it would absolutely be in my favor if there wasn't so much "spill over" into my last two years (that is, earlier credits being entered in as Junior and Senior due to the 1-30,31-60,61-90,91-120 designation.)
In reality, these grades *are* in my first two academic years, and comprise my associate's degree (I kept repeating courses or taking random courses). However, according to AMCAS' designation of credit years, those credits would run all the way into my senior year.

In sum, my first two years took 6 years to complete, and are my worst years . I was lazy, obviously unfocused, and simply drifting aimlessly through school. When I transferred to a four year, my grades went up drastically and I've maintained that since, and will be completing two degrees with a minor in an effort to show that I've made serious changes. I'd like to be able to reflect that somehow.

Thanks again.

so does aamcas automatically partition your credits into different years? I'm a bit confused about how it works.

 

[rfvbnmju]

For two degrees, if your transcript says you earned a BA in x /BS in your, list both of them. I had about 141 units and I listed them depending on the year I took them. AAMC didn't change anything. Btw what's your BA in?

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[Captain Sisko]

For two degrees, if your transcript says you earned a BA in x /BS in your, list both of them. I had about 141 units and I listed them depending on the year I took them. AAMC didn't change anything. Btw what's your BA in?

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+1

It'll have a place for degrees earned and majors to be listed. I got a pair of BSes and didn't have any problems with verification, even though there's not much in terms of guidance to affirm you're doing it correctly.

As far as parsing out what year your credits are in i believe you're correct in that it's possible to have a ton of credits your senior year. The instruction manual actually covers this really well and the amcas help line is pretty informative if you've any other questions.

Also don't sweat the complexity of your academic record-nontrads do just fine, I'm at 280 credits over four institutions and 13 years 🙂

 

[LFC85]

For two degrees, if your transcript says you earned a BA in x /BS in your, list both of them. I had about 141 units and I listed them depending on the year I took them. AAMC didn't change anything. Btw what's your BA in?

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The B.A. is in history.

 

[LFC85]

Thank you all for your advice, I greatly appreciate it. Good luck to all of you.