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I can try to help you out by giving my experience with this cycle (army enlisted vet here). First I have a question though, do you have a dd214 (discharge papers)? Was this like a college officer program? because that is a lot different than being enlisted in the military.
When I applied I did not even know about the transcript and never sent anything. Then AMCAS contacted me saying they needed this for verification because they saw that one was actually available. It took 24 hrs for them to send it, I think I talked to everyone on the phone and it was easy. It sounds like you don't have this at all so I'm not sure what AMCAS will want.
Are you going to put Yes for discharged from military on the amcas? If you do this they will ask for your dd214 during the background check. So if you don't have this I would say you can't really put yes for this question. Not an expert but this is from my experience with the cycle.
When I applied I did not even know about the transcript and never sent anything. Then AMCAS contacted me saying they needed this for verification because they saw that one was actually available. It took 24 hrs for them to send it, I think I talked to everyone on the phone and it was easy. It sounds like you don't have this at all so I'm not sure what AMCAS will want.
Are you going to put Yes for discharged from military on the amcas? If you do this they will ask for your dd214 during the background check. So if you don't have this I would say you can't really put yes for this question. Not an expert but this is from my experience with the cycle.
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Prior enlisted Navy here...
As a general heuristic, if it's not on paper, it didn't happen.
Check Blocks 11, 14, and 18 on your DD214. This will not contain letter grades, so you can't report it accurately to AMCAS anyway. But they'll say, "Completed Underwater Demolition Team" or "Shaped Charges: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" if you want to put it as part of your 15 experiences.
Don't worry about not having a JST. The majority of the materials on the JST is not recognized by ACE anyway (especially outside the context of an enlisted C-school or other advanced training), and should not be reported to AMCAS. AMCAS has an official video on what to report/not to report, but my google skills fail me at the moment.
Look for other completion paperwork refers to the 8.5'x 11' piece of paper that they give you at the end of "course work", which can be as meaningful as graduating from a C-school or as meaningless as finishing that ungodly information warfare on NKO. This (in addition to the tendency for large bureaucratic organizations like the US military to lose important things) is why I made a habit of collecting/scanning every piece of paperwork I get back, from FLOCs/CIRCOMs, official school graduation paperwork, to the multiple "officially unofficial" cards that credit me a drown-proofed, HMMWV-driving, lowly subject of Neptunus Rex.
Ultimately, since you didn't finish your pipeline program... you probably have nothing to show for it, and nothing to report to AMCAS. Forward that JST email (the one saying that AMCAS needs to email them) to AMCAS, and conclude with "Please let me know if continuing action or information is required on my part".
As a general heuristic, if it's not on paper, it didn't happen.
Check Blocks 11, 14, and 18 on your DD214. This will not contain letter grades, so you can't report it accurately to AMCAS anyway. But they'll say, "Completed Underwater Demolition Team" or "Shaped Charges: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" if you want to put it as part of your 15 experiences.
Don't worry about not having a JST. The majority of the materials on the JST is not recognized by ACE anyway (especially outside the context of an enlisted C-school or other advanced training), and should not be reported to AMCAS. AMCAS has an official video on what to report/not to report, but my google skills fail me at the moment.
Look for other completion paperwork refers to the 8.5'x 11' piece of paper that they give you at the end of "course work", which can be as meaningful as graduating from a C-school or as meaningless as finishing that ungodly information warfare on NKO. This (in addition to the tendency for large bureaucratic organizations like the US military to lose important things) is why I made a habit of collecting/scanning every piece of paperwork I get back, from FLOCs/CIRCOMs, official school graduation paperwork, to the multiple "officially unofficial" cards that credit me a drown-proofed, HMMWV-driving, lowly subject of Neptunus Rex.
Ultimately, since you didn't finish your pipeline program... you probably have nothing to show for it, and nothing to report to AMCAS. Forward that JST email (the one saying that AMCAS needs to email them) to AMCAS, and conclude with "Please let me know if continuing action or information is required on my part".
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