How do schools contact you if you're overseas?

[PremedSurvivor]

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Hi everyone,

I'm going to be out of the country for the end of the application season and I'm concerned about being difficult to contact or that the schools might use my old address. I've notified all my schools and updated my AMCAS contact info accordingly (preferred address). I also gave them the new phone number I purchased, but it doesn't come with a voicemail. Lastly, they have my email.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is there anything else I can do to facilitate correspondence?

 

[LizzyM]

Email; don't leave home without it. It is the cheapest, easiest and most reliable way to communicate with people around the world.

 

[medmedman]

Hi everyone,

I'm going to be out of the country for the end of the application season and I'm concerned about being difficult to contact or that the schools might use my old address. I've notified all my schools and updated my AMCAS contact info accordingly (preferred address). I also gave them the new phone number I purchased, but it doesn't come with a voicemail. Lastly, they have my email.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is there anything else I can do to facilitate correspondence?

yup yup. It will be via email. If you have internet acess where you're going, i would tlel each school that email is the PRIMARY method of communication

 

[PremedSurvivor]

That's a relief! Now that I don't need to hover around my phone, I'm free to divert my neuroses elsewhere 🙂

Thank you very much LizzyM and medmedman!

 

[xffan624]

Hi everyone,

I'm going to be out of the country for the end of the application season and I'm concerned about being difficult to contact or that the schools might use my old address. I've notified all my schools and updated my AMCAS contact info accordingly (preferred address). I also gave them the new phone number I purchased, but it doesn't come with a voicemail. Lastly, they have my email.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is there anything else I can do to facilitate correspondence?

E-mail is preferred, but not all schools use it, even when they know you're overseas. I had this experience. I gave them a reliable # of someone in the States and then had the person tell the school they would pass on the message and then I called them back via skype. Not the most efficient system, but it worked and most of the schools use e-mail anyway. I supposed I could have had a skype # while overseas, but there was a 12 hour time difference where I was located so I didn't want to receive phone calls at 2 in the morning.

 

[PremedSurvivor]

That's a great idea xffan624, thank you for sharing! I think I might include my parents' number, just to be safe. There is a similar time difference here, so I don't think international calls would be viable.