AMCAS primary application returned to applicant

[FutureMD2025]

Status message: An AMCAS verifier found missing course work in your application during their review. Your application has been returned so you can make the necessary changes to your course work. You may also need to make changes to your schools attended section.

What can cause this error? is a class on my college transcript missing from the course list in application or vice versa?

TIA

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[wysdoc]

Status message: An AMCAS verifier found missing course work in your application during their review. Your application has been returned so you can make the necessary changes to your course work. You may also need to make changes to your schools attended section.

What can cause this error? is a class on my college transcript missing from the course list in application or vice versa?

TIA

You either left off some courses that were on your transcript, or put them under the wrong term or at the wrong school if you attended more than 1 college.
Get someone you trust to sit with you and proofread line by line your AMCAS app compared to your transcripts

 

[LizzyM]

Does your transcript list credits earned and transferred from another school? Did you take College courses during HS? Did you study abroad through a program sponsored by a US school other than the one you attended in the States? Those are the most common scenarios I see.

 

[FutureMD2025]

AMCAS changed some of my grades from A/A- on the official transcript to B+/B. Is this normal? When asked they indicated that they will correct them but have been back logged fixing others applications for weeks.

 

[wysdoc]

@FutureMD2025 I added this question to your previous thread about AMCAS verification.
You had your first issue with not sending all your transcripts back in August, has your primary been sent to schools by now?

 

[FutureMD2025]

@FutureMD2025 I added this question to your previous thread about AMCAS verification.
You had your first issue with not sending all your transcripts back in August, has your primary been sent to schools by now?

My first issue was not due to missing transcripts rather it was due to courses entered in AMCAS not matching the official transcript. I corrected them and the primary application was accepted by AMCAS and sent to the schools I applied. However the application now has incorrect grades as a result GPA in AMCAS is 3.52 instead of the actual 3.89 GPA.

 

[surelycalm]

Wow, that is horrible. I would call them if you haven't already. I was able to get someone on the phone back in June when I had some questions.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

My first issue was not due to missing transcripts rather it was due to courses entered in AMCAS not matching the official transcript. I corrected them and the primary application was accepted by AMCAS and sent to the schools I applied. However the application now has incorrect grades as a result GPA in AMCAS is 3.52 instead of the actual 3.89 GPA.

I am sorry that this happened, but AMCAS also has documentation about how it calculates GPA since not all registrars use the same scale for ABCDF grades. The registrar will describe the grading scale on the transcripts to guide the AMCAS team, and many schools give B+ grades for 90-92% rather than an A-. Without knowing what your transcript has (which likely includes both % and assigned grade), I'm guessing this is what happened, but only you and the AMCAS team know.

I always tell people your institutional GPA and your application GPA may be completely different, and you have the responsibility of calculating the application grade before you apply so you don't have surprises like this.

 

[surelycalm]

AMCAS changed some of my grades from A/A- on the official transcript to B+/B. Is this normal? When asked they indicated that they will correct them but have been back logged fixing others applications for weeks.

I am sorry that this happened, but AMCAS also has documentation about how it calculates GPA since not all registrars use the same scale for ABCDF grades. The registrar will describe the grading scale on the transcripts to guide the AMCAS team, and many schools give B+ grades for 90-92% rather than an A-. Without knowing what your transcript has (which likely includes both % and assigned grade), I'm guessing this is what happened, but only you and the AMCAS team know.

I always tell people your institutional GPA and your application GPA may be completely different, and you have the responsibility of calculating the application grade before you apply so you don't have surprises like this.

How could AMCAS change an A on an official transcript to a B based on the school? That doesn't make any sense. You could never get an A then.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

How could AMCAS change an A on an official transcript to a B based on the school? That doesn't make any sense. You could never get an A then.

The AMCAS grade conversion chart lists the rules for different grading policies used by registrars. Again, I don't have your official transcript that would specify the rules that would be used for your application GPA. See the numeric grade table.

 

[FutureMD2025]

The AMCAS grade conversion chart lists the rules for different grading policies used by registrars. Again, I don't have your official transcript that would specify the rules that would be used for your application GPA. See the numeric grade table.

@Mr.Smile12 My college has a semester system and assigns 4.0 to A and 3.67 to A- whereas AMCAS assigns 3.7 to A-, so AMCAS GPA should not be lower than the GPA on the transcript. Anyway, AMCAS admitted the mistake but did not correct it after many weeks due to the backlog of applications that have to be corrected.

 

[surelycalm]

@Mr.Smile12 My college has a semester system and assigns 4.0 to A and 3.67 to A- whereas AMCAS assigns 3.7 to A-, so AMCAS GPA should not be lower than the GPA on the transcript. Anyway, AMCAS admitted the mistake but did not correct it after many weeks due to the backlog of applications that have to be corrected.

What exactly does your official transcript show for grades for individual classes? A, A-, B+, B etc? Or does it have 4.0, 3.67, etc?
For example:
BIO101 A- or BIO101 3.67?