stanford does NOT screen applicants and will post the supplemental application starting in august.
for more information, you can check out:
http://med.stanford.edu/md/admissions/app_process.html
Stanford Supplementary Application and Recommendations
ALL applicants will be invited to submit a Stanford Supplementary Application once we receive your AMCAS application. Invitations will be sent via e-mail and regular mail, and will be accompanied by directions for completing the Supplementary Application. We STRONGLY suggest that you complete the Supplementary Application as soon as possible. All materials, including your letters of recommendation, must be postmarked by the deadline.
STANFORD SUPPLEMENTARY APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 15, 2005 (11:59 p.m. PST)
We anticipate that the first invitations to submit the Stanford Supplementary Application will be sent in August.
The Stanford Supplementary Application requests additional information including essay questions about your personal background and professional interests. We request at least three complete letters of evaluation from persons who know you well enough to evaluate your scholarly potential and promise as a physician. These letters may be accompanied by an undergraduate school's premedical committee evaluation, but a committee evaluation alone is not advisable.
It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that all materials arrive on time. When the Stanford MD Application Web Site opens in August, applicants may go there to check if their materials have been received by the Office of Admissions.
An application fee must be paid (via credit card) at the time the Stanford Supplementary Application is submitted. Exceptions are made for only those applicants who apply for and receive a fee waiver from AMCAS. Stanford honors the guidelines and final decision of AMCAS in the issuance of application fee waivers. Application fees are required from all applicants who are not granted the waiver by AMCAS.
Stanford requires complete letters of evaluation from three to six individuals who know you well and can evaluate your performance in those areas that are most relevant to your application. Professors, instructors, thesis advisors or supervisors of special projects, clinical, volunteer or employment activities usually provide the most informative evaluations. Letters from teachers who do not know you beyond grades and class rank tell us little more than your AAMC academic record, and such letters are discouraged. We prefer that letters of recommendation are not sent until after we have received your AMCAS application and you have been invited to submit a Stanford Supplementary Application.