Does AMCAS notify all the schools we applied to whenever we get in someplace?

[ihatemostofyou]

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And do adcoms make use of this info? 😱

 

[derf]

And do adcoms make use of this info? 😱

i believe mid to late february is when all schools see your acceptances.

 

[ihatemostofyou]

i believe mid to late february is when all schools see your acceptances.

Anyone else? I was under the impression that all schools we applied to are notified as soon as we get in someplace, but I can't find my original source anywhere... I'm really curious 😛

 

[calstudent]

i'm pretty sure it is only after may 15.
but, schools do "talk," as we heard in the michigan thread.

 

[Haybrant]

finally the first good question asked on this; i think they know more than just the acceptance....

 

[khan786]

ABSOLUTELY! There is an online database accessible by adcoms nationwide. my friend found this out from a friendly, verbose ad com member last year. just to put those rumors to rest - IT IS TRUE!!!

 

[stinkycheese]

That's what I thought. Funny how one day after my first acceptance, a school that had put me on post-interview hold suddenly called me to express their sincere interest in re-evaluating my application. Since this school happened to suck balls and was worse than the school I had gotten into already, I told them thanks, but no thanks, suckas. But I always wondered why, after keeping me on the fence for two months, would they suddenly be "interested"... on the day after I got my first acceptance.

 

[leechy]

ABSOLUTELY! There is an online database accessible by adcoms nationwide. my friend found this out from a friendly, verbose ad com member last year. just to put those rumors to rest - IT IS TRUE!!!

My oh my... what can they see on that database? Just acceptances, or interviews and everywhere you've applied?

 

[flyingyeti]

I think this is what happens: the AMCAS is a multi-part application, and depending on how much each school pay to AAMC, there's different tiers of information that are made available to them. I suspect this because some schools asked for a copy of my AMCAS essay as part of their supplemental, some schools asked for a list of other schools I had applied to.

 

[bleh4788]

I had called AMCAS a long time ago and they said that they did not tell the schools where else you applied to....is this not actually true?

 

[Haybrant]

I had called AMCAS a long time ago and they said that they did not tell the schools where else you applied to....is this not actually true?

not true; tho the tiers of buying info is very interesting; anyway, there are so many implications to this I hadnt initially considered; it's more important than you might think

 

[derf]

I had called AMCAS a long time ago and they said that they did not tell the schools where else you applied to....is this not actually true?

this is true, schools never know where you've applied, but do see your acceptances 'after' a certain date.

 

[Haybrant]

this is true, schools never know where you've applied, but do see your acceptances 'after' a certain date.

i have info from the inside that this is untrue; they know all along...

 

[Mitro]

I think the "official" line is that only the schools you were accepted to get to see where else you were accepted after May 15th.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

i have info from the inside that this is untrue; they know all along...

That sounds illegal, any way we can expose them?

 

[bleh4788]

not true; tho the tiers of buying info is very interesting; anyway, there are so many implications to this I hadnt initially considered; it's more important than you might think

what sort of implications....like if you apply to a lot of schools, do some just assume you aren't really interested in them.

this is so confusing!

 

[Jason110]

This is from the AAMC themselves. Go to (http://www.aamc.org/students/applying/policies/admissionofficers.htm) for the full page.

Between August 1 and March 15 notify the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services of all admission actions within four weeks of those actions being taken.

Between March 16 and the first day of class, notify the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services of all admission actions within seven days of those actions being taken.

Each school notify all applicants - other than Combined College/M.D., Early Decision Program (EDP), and deferred matriculation applicants - of acceptance to medical school only after October 15 of each admission cycle. It may be appropriate to communicate notifications of decisions other than acceptance to medical school to applicants prior to October 15.

By March 30 of the matriculation year, each school have issued a number of offers of acceptance at least equal to the expected number of students in its first-year entering class and have reported those acceptance actions to the AAMC Section for Medical School Application Services.

What classifies as "admission actions"? An AdCom once told me it was both acceptances and rejections. NOT whether or not you have been invited to complete a secondary or attend an interview. They are only final decisions (include waitlists).

Hope this helps clear up some questions.

Jason

 

[i61164]

The guidelines above show that schools notify AAMC of acceptances/rejections, but it doesn't really say if other schools have access to that information. However, another guideline on that same page shows that they do:

"After June 1, any school that plans to make an acceptance offer to an applicant already known to have been accepted by another school for that entering class ensure that the other school is advised of this offer at the time that the offer is made. This notification should be made immediately by telephone and promptly thereafter by written correspondence delivered by regular or electronic methods. Schools should communicate fully with each other with respect to anticipated late roster changes in order to minimize inter-school miscommunication and misunderstanding, as well as the possibility of unintended vacant positions in a school's first-year entering class."

Presumably, the only way that a school would know that they need to notify another school of an acceptance offer is that do have access to the AAMC records.