Coursework Entries on Quarter System

[hamhamfan]

Please help me clarify this out:

1. Winter quarter classes that start in January should be listed as though they started in December. Meaning a class that started, say, January 5th 2004, would be listed as Q2 2003.

2. Spring quarter classes are automatically changed. Meaning a Spring 2004 class would be listed as a Spring 2003 class.

3. Thus, any courses taken during the 2003-2004 school year would be listed as 2003?

Select from the designated drop down menu the calendar year when you first began the course (the first day of class) in the calendar year field. AMCAS will automatically convert to the appropriate AMCAS Academic Year. For example, a course taken during the Spring term of the 2000 calendar year will be reflected by the application (after translation) as having been taken in the 1999 AMCAS Academic Year (sometimes referred to as the 1999-2000 academic year).



Exception

Only applicants who have taken courses during the winter term in a trimester or quarter system in which the winter term begins in January will experience this issue. The application operates on the basis that winter courses in a trimester system begin in December; as such, after translation occurs, these courses will have the same academic year as calendar year, even though the correct academic year is the previous one.



Example: A winter trimester course beginning in January 2002 will be listed in the application with an academic year of 2002 (2002-2003). The correct academic year is 2001.



Applicants who fall into this category should enter winter trimester courses as though they began in December of the preceding calendar year. For example, a course beginning in January 2002 should be entered as though it began in December 2001, in order to reflect a correct academic year of 2001.



Enter the term in which the course was attempted using only one of the codes defined in the following table. If none of the calendar systems listed in the table below applies to your institution, indicate "Other."

Sorry, I'm just so worried about this...

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