Submit all LoRs after 6/1 and still have your app.complete 6/1 ?

[Gauss44]

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Is it possible to submit all of your LoR's after June 1st, and still have your AMCAS application considered "complete" on June 1st?

I'm thinking that might be possible by using Interfolio or something?

(Spring semester ends toward the end of June, so I suspect that most of my professors would want to wait until the semester's over to submit an LoR for me. I don't plan to take classes until the spring semester, and haven't taken any classes for the last 10 years. If this won't work, I might need to adjust my plans.)

Edit: When approximately are the earliest applications "complete"? June 15th?

 

[IncognitoGuy]

You're not complete until schools receive all your materials: MCAT scores (which, if people take it in the summer come later on), LORs, AMCAS and secondary/secondary payment. This occurs after your primary AMCAS application is verified. So you could have everything but your LORs in and you would thus not be complete.

You don't need LORs to submit your AMCAS for verification, IIRC.

 

[Gauss44]

You're not complete until schools receive all your materials: MCAT scores (which, if people take it in the summer come later on), LORs, AMCAS and secondary/secondary payment. This occurs after your primary AMCAS application is verified. So you could have everything but your LORs in and you would thus not be complete.

You don't need LORs to submit your AMCAS for verification, IIRC.

When (approximately) are the earliest people complete by? June 15th?

 

[kyamh]

I think there is a bit of miscommunication.

If you submit your primary to AMCAS on June 1st, you will be placed in line to be verified on June 1st as long as your transcripts have come in - you don't need the LORs to be in at this point.

After verification, which can take anywhere from a few hours to 2 months, depending on when you apply, you will get secondaries. At that point it is up to you to become "complete" at each individual school you apply to. This is when having the LORs is important. That said, you can't be "complete" before you write the essays and submit your secondaries (and you won't know the questions for sure since they sometimes change year to year until you get them) so LORs only have to come in by the time you finish secondaries.

For me, LORs came in last, a week after my secondaries were done for most of my schools. That meant that I was "complete" soon after LORs came in and schools started reviewing my application. Most schools (not U of Michigan, Mayo, some others) won't look at you application until all the parts are in.

Verification is hurdle one. Writing secondaries is hurdle 2.

 

[kyamh]

When (approximately) are the earliest people complete by? June 15th?

Few people complete before July. Most schools don't start sending out secondaries until late June so you can't start on the essays until then...unless you know a given school always uses the same essays year to year and you work on pre-writing. One of my schools only sent out secondaries to everyone late July.

 

[IncognitoGuy]

When (approximately) are the earliest people complete by? June 15th?

I don't know with the delays how things went this year. I do remember that Tots submitted on 6/5 or so my year and was verified in under a week - and he submitted on the first possible day.

I submitted 6/19 and wasn't complete until 7/26. So things back up real fast.

 

[Ismet]

When (approximately) are the earliest people complete by? June 15th?

If you mean verified, then the very first people who submit their AMCAS on the very first day are verified quickly, sometimes that same day or within a few days.

The word "complete" is used as described by IncognitoGuy, and it comes later, after schools send out secondaries (not until the end of June/early July).

Complete = AMCAS verified + Secondary submitted + all LORs submitted + MCAT score

The earliest you can be complete is school-dependent. Some schools send out their secondaries early (end of June/early July) and if you pre-write your secondaries and have your LORs and MCAT score already taken care of, you can be complete then.

You do not need your LORs in order to submit AMCAS or be verified. You only need LORs in order to be complete at schools so you can be reviewed for an interview offer. In response to your thread title, there is no way to be "complete" on 6/1, ever.