Should I try and track down these classes?

[Bru]

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Hello,

In preparing and thinking about my primary application, I have been collecting transcripts. Largely this has been very easy. I have an undergraduate transcript and a postbacc transcript.

However, in thinking back a long time ago (1980's) I realized I had taken two additional classes at two other places.

The first is a algebra/trig class that I took at a community college in the summer of 1989. I am not sure if I took it as continuing education or for credit. I was in high school at that time perhaps a sophomore.

The other is a calculus class I took at a state university during the summer of 1991. I was also in high school and I am again not sure if I took it as credit or as continuing education.

Should I try and track these down?

 

[LifeTake2]

You have to state in good faith that you have listed all college classes you have taken.

Now, since you took them in HS, and don't even know if they were for credit.....I personally would probably leave them alone.

I can't tell you what to do, but this is merely what I would do.

Do understand, the reason for this rule is to keep someone from hiding bad grades, an honest admission of classes that you didn't know were given for credit is not going to kill you.

Retracting my comments based upon Dr. Midlife's posting showing they do specifically call out college courses taking in HS.

Go ye and find those transcripts.

 

[DrMidlife]

You have to submit every transcript. This isn't optional.

From the AMCAS instruction manual, page 19:

Colleges
List every post-secondary institution where you were enrolled for at least one course, even if credits have been transferred, no credits were earned, or you withdrew.

Page 36:

When entering coursework, you must include information and corresponding grades for every course in which you have ever enrolled at any U.S., U.S. Territorial, or Canadian post-secondary institution, regardless of whether credit was earned.
This includes, but is not limited to:
...
College-level courses you took while in high school even if they were not counted toward a degree by any college.

I had to track down and order a transcript from 1984 about a dozen times, and I have to do it again come residency apps.

What happens if you fail to submit a transcript? Nobody can answer this definitively. But I do know that the enrollment verification clearinghouses are growing retroactively. These databases will catch up with you, at which point your med school app will be found to be fraudulent, and you get kicked out with a hundred thou or so in student loans and no way to pay them back. Maybe. Into gambling?

Suck it up and order those transcripts. Get ready to have to order them multiple times, because your school makes you send a copy as well as AMCAS.

Best of luck to you.