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Yeah, I saw it. If you get it in sometimes between 6/10-6/15, it will get sent out on the first day in July. At least that was the case last year
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I believe there is somewhere. Also as an ex-military guy I'll be rooting for ya sailor, good luck.
Thanks. If I don't get in somewhere, I go back to the fleet for 3 years. FUUUUUUUUUUUU
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I'm on hold because of a transcript from a community college from when I took dual enrollment courses in high school. I called the school two days ago and they said it got sent out on the 25th of May. Is that normal, or should I go ahead and call AMCAS?
It’s only been a week. One of my schools sent my transcript on May 14, and it just got marked received yesterday.
Oh wow. So much for getting my application reviewed early haha.
Yeah. But apparently as long as you’re in the queue by mid-June, you’ll still go out on June 29.
Just submitted my application a few minutes ago after combing through it a few more times. I realized I'll never stop making small edits so just submitted to be done with it!
Congrats!
Now that I have submitted, I am super paranoid that I am going to reread my application and find something I would have changed.
Classic neurotic pre-med.
Lol nothing we can do about it now. I'm just not gonna reread mine 😛
Btw, love the major. Chemistry rules.
From the moment I hit submit last June, I did not look at my application until this week. It was healthier, I promise!
Same. Ignorance is bliss. 🙂
Same here. I feel like if I reread it I will catch some small mistakes and stress out lol. Ignorance is bliss
How many of you are starting secondaries? One of my prehealth advisors suggested I just relax until I actually get them, because schools change their prompts every now and then.
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I prewrote for a few schools. One I know will not change them, and the others, if I have to change some of them around I will.
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I started thinking of topics for a diversity and a greatest challenge essay since most of the school's I'm applying to had those two in the past.
slowly working through the common prompts like "talk about a time you failed" or "how are you diverse or have you overcome adversity?". It's like pulling teeth compared to the other stuff though. I think I'm a little burnt out on writing after reading and re-reading everything on my app for days
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Which school if you don't mind me asking, and how do you know they won't change it? Thanks in advance.
Pretty sure it's the military medical school as I remember him posting the dean said they'd be the same there.
My friend found a typo or two in the secondary for a school she was accepted at, don't worry too much!
Others commented they never reread their app, but I always used mine for interview prep because on the spot I can forget some things that I have done before. Doing this was good because some interviewers asked me very specific things about experiences I had mentioned and so knowing what details were already given about an experience, I could add new ones.
USUHS. We were told at orientation that they were not going to change.
Edit: the questions are also on their website, where they pretty much imply that they're going to be the same for the foreseeable future.
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I’m going to go over my app before interviews too, but I’m probably not going to read the descriptions. I put down things that are important to me. If I get asked about them, I have no problem talking about them.
I took the full weekend off (usually do like half work days on Saturday/Sunday if nothing else is going on) and it was really good for writers block.
Just got verified today. Science GPA was about where I thought and so was overall. My all other was way lower than I thought it would be though. Stupid art school 16 years ago.
*sigh* account still on hold because of my dual enrollment transcript. Stupid English classes 
Yuck, sorry.*sigh* account still on hold because of my dual enrollment transcript. Stupid English classes
The cycle was more hectic and people ended up being verified a bit later than that. To be safe, I'd err more towards 6/8-6/11.
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Do they email you once you're verified? Or do you just have to check the amcas site?
u get an email
Ok thanks, now I know not to keep checking the site lol
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I was doing the same thing until I saw someone mention it somewhere. I got the email right as I was going into lab lol.
Agreed with that recommendation, for last cycle I submitted 6/17 and was verified 7/11 FYI 🙂
I saw somewhere that some schools don’t screen at all, so as soon as they see that you’re going to apply they send a secondary. Not sure how many schools send them before receiving your app though.
The fact that your 10 transcripts got verified so soon makes me feel much less worried about my 2 😛
Sweet, maybe I'll be verified soon since I submitted about 3 hours after Matthew.
On another note, does anyone know if there was a secondary thread last year? Both this year's sticky and last year's say "coming soon".
On another note, does anyone know if there was a secondary thread last year? Both this year's sticky and last year's say "coming soon".
Haha, yeah. I was expecting it to take much longer.
Don't they put the secondaries in the school specific threads?
I'm trying to decide whether to add the cycle tracker thing into my sig like you did (and a lot of people do).
I want to use MDApps but it might be too much lol
I thought about it, but I feel like my data wouldn't be useful since there are literally only 23 other people in my situation lol.
Edit: Well, I said **** it and put it in. I don't care. I'm excited to finally be applying. I've been thinking about this for the last 14 years. I'm not too cool for school.
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Lol to be frank MDApps isn't really used for the data. It's more for showing off
Yeah go for it. But 6? You must be from a real nice state lol
Special military postbacc. The other five are just to have options.
Make sure to check if they made any adjustments. They didn't count my statistic as math so it was not in my BCPM GPA. I called and they apologized saying they will fix it if I submit the petition form. When I asked an eta, they say hopefully before the end of June. 
Texas cycle is a lot earlier/faster so if you’re in Texas you’ll be getting secondaries between now and July. many people will interview in July/August!
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Oh, yeah. These are links to threads that, I assume, tell you when schools sent secondaries. That or they answer questions about secondaries in the thread. I'm not really sure, I just noticed they're non-existent.
So someone else started a secondary thread for people to post when they get secondaries but in truth most people use the school specific threads for this function. I need to update the link but you can see all of the secondary Questions in the 2017-2018 School Specific forum. If you scroll through those threads you can also get an idea of when people last cycle started getting secondaries. A lot of school websites (Dell for example) will explicitly tell you when they plan to send out the first wave of secondaries. The 2018-2019 SSD forum will become more active as the cycle gets going but in some of the TX threads there is already discussion about secondaries.
I prewrote a lot of my secondaries already by looking at the 2017-2018 school specific threads, where the secondary prompts are (usually) on the first post. Some of them may change slightly, but at least I have most of them done (except for the autobiography UCSD wants--lawd).
Same, except I've only prewritten about 6ish so far. I've skipped around to certain questions for multiple schools. I've had some questions about what people wrote but luckily found answers in past threads. (One was "Do you have any comments for the admissions committee - include them here." 10,000 word limit. LOL)
Thanks, @Lucca. I didn't really know if that link served a purpose so I was just wondering. I didn't want to start asking about secondaries in SSD before secondaries were released.
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