Hey my premed advisor got this from Cornell:
"As some of you might know, in the past medical schools had the
> option of receiving labels from AMCAS to mail their secondary
> applications. Those mailing labels had the addresses of applicants
> who had just submitted an AMCAS application listing that particular
> medical school, and the AMCAS application had not been either
> completed or verified. Other schools (like Cornell) opted to wait
> until an AMCAS application was verified and submitted electronically
> before sending their secondary. And, there were schools which only
> sent secondaries to applicants after a first screening.
>
> This year, AMCAS has given us the same options in a different format.
> And, as is to be expected, each medical school has decided what
> process works best for them. As of last week, medical schools had
> the option of sending their secondaries (or, since most of them are
> now on their web sites, sending instructions on how to access their
> secondaries) to those applicants who had submitted an AMCAS
> application which had not yet been verified (the equivalent of
> receiving maiing labels). Some did that right away, others opted to
> wait a little while longer, to decide what to do.
>
> Please, do not let your students panic. I am sure that all medical
> schools are, as is Cornell, eager to start our admission process.
> Tell your students that we will be extremely flexible this year with
> deadlines and be sympathetic to applicants' tales of woe, because we
> need them as much as they need us. They should be patient because we
> are all thinking very carefully how to proceed in these special and
> painful circumstances and it may take some schools longer than others
> to make that decision.
>
> In all probability, we, at Cornell, will start contacting applicants
> by the middle of next week.
"
It was sent on July 27.