amcas corrections - did i goof up?

[mmcnam]

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hi all,

i just looked over my amcas and noticed that they made corrections on half of my classes. is this a bad thing? how does this reflect on me? there were certain things that i was pretty confused about - for instance, my school classifies linguistics as a social science but amcas thinks its a foreign language. is this a big deal?

thanks!

 

[LifetimeDoc]

No, it's no big deal. The only kind of corrections you need to worry about are when they have to correct that "A" you entered when you really got a "C" in the class (as shown on your transcripts).

 

[postbacker]

What kind of "corrections" were they making? Grades? BCPM inclusions/exclusions? Typos on course titles?

 

[mmcnam]

It was mostly just details about courses that there were discrepancies on. If they didn't agree that a certain course had the right designation, they corrected it. Odd grades, like pass fails, AP credit that I didn't add...

 

[JRockdown]

Not a big deal, they are pretty picky on the whole thing. As long as you reported everything as close as you could I wouldn't worry.

If they changed it all cause you fudged it, then you might be worrying.

 

[keys]

I had this also. I think that the way the year was supposed to be entered is different than what I thought. I started freshman year in 2001 - so for both fall and spring semester they labeled it 2001, even though the spring semester is in 2002. I think this is called "academic year".

 

[sendwich]

dont' worry about it.

 

[FlowLimited]

I reported that I got an "A-" in three of my classes and AMCAS bumped them all up to an "A" when they verified it. I called and asked about it and they said there was no error and that they do that sometimes.

It was a nice feeling.

 

[GoSouthernGo]

Yeah, don't worry. I had several courses from my speech-language path. degree switched to a bios classification because of blatant "anatomy" or "neurophysiology" in the titles. So I have about 7 X's for those courses. No big whoop.

 

[punkindrublic]

I had some stuff I left off since I didn't think it was really 'coursework'. Pretty stupid of me. In any case, the stuff I left off is all p/f (and is only p/f at my school, it's not like I petitioned for p/f), and it was all pass. I don't think it's a big deal at all, certainly not like I was trying to hide anything.

I think the problem would arise if you had d's and f's you either entered incorrectly or 'forgot' to enter.

 

[bawer234]

They changed all my A+'s to A's and kedpt my A-'s👎