I have already had my transcripts sent to AMCAS, but I have not submitted my application yet. I have just received a 4 credit hour A in stats for a summer class, and I was wondering if I should re-send transcripts because my GPA will have been boosted? It's not going to bump it a ton obviously but with a somewhat low GPA, anything will help at this point.
Re-Requesting Transcripts
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If your grades have posted to your transcripts, then you'll have no choice but to re-send them. And in the event that they haven't posted yet, I'd think you'd be better off with an earlier submission rather than a 0.008 increase in your gpa
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I do not know that you HAVE to send them. If its not a major bump in your GPA and you are ready to submit, I would submit without the new grades. If however you do not think you will submit till Monday or later, I would add the grade and have the transcripts resent.
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If you can get your transcript requested tomorrow with the new grade posted and your school is not horrendously slow I would add it as AMCAS will receive it before they get to verifying your grades. I mean, my schools gets transcripts out in 48 hours, but other can take up to two weeks.
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You would have to send them. Once they post to your transcripts, not submitting them is the same as basically trying to hide your grades. What's the difference of not requesting a transcript from 2 years ago and one from 2 days ago if they're both officially on your record? For all we know, OP could have gotten 3 F's and a W. If those grades posted to his transcripts already BEFORE he submitted, I can guarantee you he has to send those transcripts in
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The reason I feel like you would not HAVE to send these in is the following situation:
Think if someone was ready to submit at 9:00 am on June 5th, or w/e the first day is for a given year and they just finished their senior year. They have already sent in transcripts with everything but spring grades but later find out their spring grades will be posted on June 4th. Now even if this person requested that new transcript to be sent in, AMCAS would process their application with the old transcript w/o spring grades because they would not know a new transcript w/ spring grades is on its way and would not have received it in time.
This is that same situation. He/she needs to determine if his transcript will be received by AMCAS by the time they are going to process his application. If he thinks it will be, then by all means send it in. If he does not, I see no reason he has to send it in.
I do heed to your example of having 3 F's as at that point it would look like he is hiding something, but that is not the case here. He got an A and will list the class as "no grade yet" or w/e it is on AMCAS.
Think if someone was ready to submit at 9:00 am on June 5th, or w/e the first day is for a given year and they just finished their senior year. They have already sent in transcripts with everything but spring grades but later find out their spring grades will be posted on June 4th. Now even if this person requested that new transcript to be sent in, AMCAS would process their application with the old transcript w/o spring grades because they would not know a new transcript w/ spring grades is on its way and would not have received it in time.
This is that same situation. He/she needs to determine if his transcript will be received by AMCAS by the time they are going to process his application. If he thinks it will be, then by all means send it in. If he does not, I see no reason he has to send it in.
I do heed to your example of having 3 F's as at that point it would look like he is hiding something, but that is not the case here. He got an A and will list the class as "no grade yet" or w/e it is on AMCAS.
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I generally disagree here. While I think it is in your best interest to have the most up to date grades possible, I was actually advised against sending in my spring grades for the sole reason that my committee letter began writing prior to spring grades coming out. I was than told that leaving spring grades out leaves room for a great follow up letter. AMCAS doesn't specify specifically and therefore I'm not sure it matters. There are a million other forum posts that suggest resend if they make a BIG difference, or don't waste your time. Personally I sent them in as of May 5th the day the applications opened because I was anxious and I knew full well my spring grades wouldn't be issued by than.
As luck would have it, sitting here today waiting for my personal statement to have its final revision I've yet to submit. I'm not worried and all the literature I can find again simply states, submit if it benefits you, else don't worry about it. Are you hiding grades? Perhaps one might find a reason to think that, but in reality if you have 3 years of studies to back up strong grades there is no reason to think otherwise. Just list the courses as future/current. I plan to also list my fall and summer semesters as future/current as well.
Logistics was also an issue for me I might add, I have to hand deliver transcript request forms when sending to AMCAS as per a school policy and I was not present at my school to be able to do that -- no post dating was allowed either.
As luck would have it, sitting here today waiting for my personal statement to have its final revision I've yet to submit. I'm not worried and all the literature I can find again simply states, submit if it benefits you, else don't worry about it. Are you hiding grades? Perhaps one might find a reason to think that, but in reality if you have 3 years of studies to back up strong grades there is no reason to think otherwise. Just list the courses as future/current. I plan to also list my fall and summer semesters as future/current as well.
Logistics was also an issue for me I might add, I have to hand deliver transcript request forms when sending to AMCAS as per a school policy and I was not present at my school to be able to do that -- no post dating was allowed either.
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