How AMCAS rolling process works

[lialalala]

Based on the below information,

• AMCAS 2022-2023 opens on May 4th, 2022.
• AMCAS 2022-2023 can be submitted on May 28th, 2022.
• Verified AMCAS applications are transmitted to medical schools starting on June 26th, 2022.

Will applications submitted on May 28th and June 25th will be considered as the same queue?
I am planning to take the MCAT in May and the score will be released in early June.
Then would it be okay to submit the applications after the scores are released?

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[Sartino404]

1. No. Verification times on May 28th can be days to a week, while it could be 4-6 weeks by June 25th. What is normally advised is to submit your app to one school on May 28th (Some place you would apply to no matter what the MCAT score is) and then prewrite secondaries through June for any school you could see yourself applying to given likely scores. Only once you get a score, however, do you actually resubmit your AMCAS to them - if you do it right, your score release should coincide rather well with most schools' secondary release times in early July.

 

[gyngyn]

1. No. Verification times on May 28th can be days to a week, while it could be 4-6 weeks by June 25th. What is normally advised is to submit your app to one school on May 28th (Some place you would apply to no matter what the MCAT score is) and then prewrite secondaries through June for any school you could see yourself applying to given likely scores. Only once you get a score, however, do you actually resubmit your AMCAS to them - if you do it right, your score release should coincide rather well with most schools' secondary release times in early July.

It is safer to use a "throwaway" for this purpose (one that you really have no interest in).

 

[LizzyM]

The difference is in the verification. When you submit and your transcripts are received by AMCAS, you are queued for verification of your transcripts (does what you entered from your transcript match the transcript itself and does AMCAS agree with categorization of BCPM and non-BCPM ("AO" al other)? That takes days to weeks depending on the number of applications in ahead of you that have not yet been verified. Clearly, submitting one day before the first bolus is sent to the med schools will be too late to be verified and sent in that first group. That said, the reviews aren't necessarily done first in-first out but can be sorted and skimmed as often as new applications arrive so if you are a top candidate, your application will rise to the top and get noticed. If you aren't a top candidate, it is unlikely that being early will help... 25% of all applications arrive on Day 1.