So what is it like trying to submit your AMCAS application on day one?

[mrh125]

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does their website get all broken like it did when I tried registering for the mcat over a year ago and couldn't register until a day later and by that time all the good times were taken? The AAMC were atrocious then and I can't afford to submit late, so im hoping their website doesnt break.

 

[ruedjgtc]

Applying on time has very little to do with technical hiccups. To apply on time applicants should of been working on things several months ago. There's going to be random delays, but it effects everyone more less equally, so again applying smoothly has more to do with the applicant doing stuff on time then the AMCAS problems in my experience.

Just be happy there's a centralized system at all for the primary.

 

[DoctorWhoo]

Protip... being a day late won't kill your app

Two days late, very different story 🤣🤣🤣

 

[mrh125]

Applying on time has very little to do with technical hiccups. To apply on time applicants should of been working on things several months ago. There's going to be random delays, but it effects everyone more less equally, so again applying smoothly has more to do with the applicant doing stuff on time then the AMCAS problems in my experience.

Just be happy there's a centralized system at all for the primary.

thanks. I got the app taken care of. i was just worried about technical hickups on the mcat I really got screwed over. 2 hours late on the first day meant almost all the test options in CA were full except like 1. i hope everyone and their grandma doesnt submit on day 1 🙁. do they?

 

[Donald Kimball]

thanks. I got the app taken care of. i was just worried about technical hickups on the mcat I really got screwed over. 2 hours late on the first day meant almost all the test options in CA were full except like 1. i hope everyone and their grandma doesnt submit on day 1 🙁. do they?

There were no technical problems last year on day 1. However, they also delayed when you could submit by almost a week last year.

Still, I was easily able to submit my application. I submitted 30 minutes after it opened, and I was verified in about a week.

A lot of people will be submitting on the first day and throughout June.

This graph, courtesy of @DAPI, makes it unpleasantly clear that the longer you wait to submit, the longer it will take to get verified.

But, as long as you submit on the first day, you will most certainly be verified before AMCAS even starts transmitting data to schools.

 

[Ismet]

Just chill. If you submit in the first few days, you will be verified by the time applications are released to schools. You are working yourself up over nothing.

 

[DK2014]

Something also to think about is if you submit early, you will likely be competing against the people with super high stats (3.9, 35+ mcat) for interview spots.

You may also feel that getting your app in super duper early (on first day) will land you an interview spot earlier in the year. While that may be the case, I know a couple schools where they give you an interview based on your stats. Lower stat people get to interview later in the cycle, even though they submitted day 1. Some schools also wait for the "pool" of applicants to build up before they decide who gets interview spots. In those cases, submitting early or a little later has nothing to do with when you submit.

Bottomline, don't freak out so much. Submitting on first day vs. submitted 5 days later has no effect on your application in the long run. Just because you submit early on first day doesn't make your 3.6/28 any more attractive or unattractive than before.

 

[gettheleadout]

Something also to think about is if you submit early, you will likely be competing against the people with super high stats (3.9, 35+ mcat) for interview spots.

You may also feel that getting your app in super duper early (on first day) will land you an interview spot earlier in the year. While that may be the case, I know a couple schools where they give you an interview based on your stats. Lower stat people get to interview later in the cycle, even though they submitted day 1. Some schools also wait for the "pool" of applicants to build up before they decide who gets interview spots. In those cases, submitting early or a little later has nothing to do with when you submit.

Bottomline, don't freak out so much. Submitting on first day vs. submitted 5 days later has no effect on your application in the long run. Just because you submit early on first day doesn't make your 3.6/28 any more attractive or unattractive than before.

While this would be true at schools where, as you described, interviews are given in order of stat precedence, I don't believe there is any data to show that the pool of "early" submitters is skewed on way or another compared to the average. I can just as easily speculate that it's skewed toward lower stat applicants applying early in an effort to increase their chances. Just an observation, not saying you were necessarily trying to imply this.

 

[plumazul]

Just chill. If you submit in the first few days, you will be verified by the time applications are released to schools. You are working yourself up over nothing.

This was not true last cycle. Only those who submitted on the first day (and some shortly after midnight after the first day) were ready in time for transmittal(June 28th). I hope AMCAS will have fixed whatever problems they were having last year and verification times will be shorter for this upcoming cycle.

 

[Ismet]

This was not true last cycle. Only those who submitted on the first day (and some shortly after midnight after the first day) were ready in time for transmittal(June 28th). I hope AMCAS will have fixed whatever problems they were having last year and verification times will be shorter for this upcoming cycle.

I know. AMCAS was a mess last year. But if you start worrying about every little thing that might go wrong, you'll drive yourself nuts. There are years of verification data demonstrating that last year was a fluke.

 

[bear2roo]

I know plenty of ppl who submitted as late as July 4 and still got in schools around their stats tier....low mid high whatever

 

[mrh125]

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[gettheleadout]

I know plenty of ppl who submitted as late as July 4 and still got in schools around their stats tier....low mid high whatever

It's not just about acceptance vs time of submission; not all acceptances are created equal. For schools that offer merit scholarships, offers may be given on a rolling basis (the case at Pritzker, for example) and so an earlier acceptance is better than a later one.