AMCAS Transmission Dates

[Alexander99]

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Does anyone remember how long it took for your AMCAS application to be transmitted to schools once it was verified? I always assumed it would be immediate but so far, the transmission dates when I log on to AMCAS are blank. I've been verified since last Thursday.

Alexander

 

[Canrenone]

I can help you on this one.

It took about 4 business days from when AMCAS said my application was ready for transmission until when it actually was ready.

Once the first school downloaded my application it took one week before everyone except Wake Forest and Tulane downloaded. They still haven't done so.

i.e. even though AMCAS says your application is ready for download it really isn't ready immediately.


Hope this helps.

 

[Alexander99]

Thanks for the info. I remember you were in a similar situation as me with the AMCAS verification process holding your application up. How have things gone post-verification? I'll be happy once I receive the secondaries but at the same time, I know it'll be even more work than I've had before. I'm trying to work on most of them now (Cali schools) so I can just copy, paste, and submit once I actually receive them.

I heard some schools (not sure which ones) somehow never update the AMCAS transmitted/downloaded section but they actually receive it. If it's been more than 10 days since verification, you may want to contact the schools to see what's up.

 

[Zahri]

I was processed last Wednesday. All my transmitted dates were blank until yesterday (Sunday night). Now, about 5 schools have downloaded. It must be that the schools have specific times where they download the info. Most of the transmissions occured outside of business hours so it must be automatic I guess. I bet if you check again you may see that some schools have downloaded. If not, within a couple days I'm sure you'll see some dates come up. Good luck 🙂

 

[Alexander99]

It's kind of strange. On Sunday none of the schools had received my application but I just checked Monday afternoon and 7 (about a third) of my schools had downloaded my info. The transmission times were at 4AM for some so I'm pretty sure the process is automated.

Of course, if the process is automated, why can't they just download the info on a daily basis so that no applicants are stuck waiting almost a week because they missed the previous week's download?

 

[Treg]

I am in a similar situation. I was processed on Monday (11/3), and I have no transmission dates on my login screen or my printed application. I received the Yale secondary right when I submitted my AMCAS last month, but there is no transmission date. I also applied to OHSU, Einstein, and Cornell. Has anyone had the same experience with these schools?

Thanks🙁

 

[Alcon]

I've been verified since early october and Einstein still doesn't show a transmit date. On the other hand, the other schools I'm applying to downloaded my app within 2 weeks of verification.

 

[Alexander99]

Just be patient. I applied to a lot of the schools you did and they showed up just recently (about 5 business days after I was verified.)

 

[labfiend]

Originally posted by Alcon
I've been verified since early october and Einstein still doesn't show a transmit date. On the other hand, the other schools I'm applying to downloaded my app within 2 weeks of verification.

I was verified in August and it STILL doesn't show a transmit date for Einstein or Tufts. I say don't worry about it for Einstein...I'm not sure it'll ever say "transmitted"...I just got an interview there, so they must've already gotten my app, right?

Anyway, good luck to all you late-ish applicants! Glad to see that I'm not the only one finishing up secondaries (sometimes seeing how early others have gotten stuff in or their ridiculously short secondary turn-around makes me want to hyperventilate).

 

[Alexander99]

I think of a lot of people forget that the interviewing season runs from September/October through February/March. December is the midpoint then for interviews. As long as you're interviewing sometime in December, you're right in the middle (neither early or late.)

Remember that all the hardcore applicants apply June 1, have the better numbers, and interview very early. In that sense, you're going up against stiffer competition. Yes, applying late hurts in some ways but you're also being compared mostly to the slackers. It evens out somewhat. I'm not advocating waiting until late in the season to interview but I think it's not as big of a factor as everyone makes it out to be.

 

[Xega]

I certainly hope you are right Alex. Funny thing about the verification was that my app went active two days after yours I think, and I got verifiied two days after you did. So maybe they do go in order after all.

 

[labfiend]

I suppose that's a good point, Alexander99. I'm used to thinking of June as the LATEST you should get your AMCAS in and 2 weeks as the max secondary turnaround time because that's what our premed advisor drills into our heads. Needless to say finishing mine in August and then not doing secondaries until weeks later made me a bit concerned (especially when we got an email from her in September saying, "I hope all your secondaries are done!"...that was before I had a single one done). Glad to know that real people aren't as neurotic as this woman encourages us to be.

 

[Alexander99]

To labfiend:

I'm not sure about your specific premed advisor but you have to remember, most of them don't know jack. I'd say the average person that has applied to med school knows infinitely more about the process than most advisors do.

I think of rolling admissions this way: unless you are waiting until the last possible day to apply and are interviewing on the last day of the season (in late February or even March), it probably matters a lot less than many people think when you interview.

If you are a strong candidate, you will get in even if are interviewing in January/Februrary. If you are a marginal applicant, you can just as easily get rejected applying June 1 and interviewing in September. I think the whole apply late or you'll get rejected theory began when people got rejected and instead of asking themselves, "What was wrong with my application?", they instead thought, "it was because I applied late." It's a lot easier to find fault with the application process than to find fault within yourself.

 

[labfiend]

True enough, Alex, but I think only to a point. Admittedly my only data supporting that opinion is a friend of mine who applied really late two years ago and got rejected everywhere, but the following year (with little change to her app) was accepted at several of the same schools. But she didn't start her AMCAS until after Christmas, so that would mean no secondaries until February and no interviews (if she got any, I don't actually know) until March, so that's a pretty extreme case. I suspect you're right in terms of those who get their AMCAS in anytime before or around, or even a little later than, now.

**edit: right, I just reread your second paragraph, and we appear to be in heated agreement... 🙂 ***

Also, I'd have to wholeheartedly agree about premed advisors being clueless. You'd think they'd at least know something about the process, seeing as they are peripherally involved in it every year, but so far all my premed committee's been good for is letter writing/compiling. They did do a nice job of that, though, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

 

[eagle99]

Alex, I think our applications are stapled to each other at the AAMC...

I FINALLY got verified this week, also no transmissions yet.

This SUCKS.

 

[Alexander99]

Isn't it great to not have to check your e-mail every day just to see you haven't been verified yet? Just get ready for the second wave of secondaries to hit you once your application starts being transmitted to your schools. Even schools that screen often give you a secondary within a day of receiving your verified application. They obviously just use a GPA/MCAT formula.

Good luck in the process. I definately feel comfortable being in the middle of the application/interview cycle.