•••quote:•••Originally posted by UCLA Paratrooper:
•STi555,
I'm in a similar situation with the quarter system. So for a winter quarter that actually starts in Jan 2001, I should label it as Winter 2000?
•••••it was this very same question that prompted my very first post on SDN last year (awwww.....). apparently AMCAS hasn't fixed the situation for this application cycle so that it makes more sense--i submitted my app with every single winter quarter being off by a year. yes, most schools on quarters (like my undergrad) or trimesters have winter terms that start the following january. HOWEVER, for whatever reason, AMCAS considers winter quarters/trimesters to start in DECEMBER, NOT january like does for like 99% of these schools, so what you need to do is put the previous calendar year for winter terms. so if you are trying to enter winter quarter of academic year 2000-2001 (meaning that winter quarter actually took place in calendar year 2001), you need to enter calendar year 2000. yes, it's technically incorrect, but it will make your terms 'line up' correctly.
why did AMCAS do it this way?!