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I just found out: AMCAS's new target date for submission of full data to the medical schools is mid-Aug.

that's right, mid-August.

Thank You, AMCAS.

 

[moo]

Where'd you hear this? It's not on their website. Did their "specialists" tell you?

 

[Carleton College kid]

where did you find this information?

 

[Smoke This]

Originally posted by synite:
•I just found out: AMCAS's new target date for submission of full data to the medical schools is mid-Aug.

that's right, mid-August.

Thank You, AMCAS.•

You know, this AMCAS snafu is actually something of a blessing in disguise, at least for some of us. Had we submitted AMCAS on June 1st like previous years, AMCAS certainly would have transmitted by now, which would mean secondaries are coming and need to be quickly returned, letters need to be sent, etc. As it is, schools who are waiting for AMCAS cannot make any decisions until they get the transmission, so those of us who are getting secondaries can take our time and finesse them. I just found out my worthless premed advising office won't send my letters out until I can physically come to campus and sign the top of a meaningless form I evidently overlooked. School is 2500 miles away, and I can't come back until mid-August anyhow.

So, I hope that all of us can take the lemons AMCAS handed us and try to make lemonade. Have fun doing the secondaries and stuff, I'm sure some of us greatly appreciate this larger timeframe to complete them.

 

[synite]

email from our pre-med advisor. sorry, should have specified.

 

[kltmd]

As nice as it is to have some time to relax and not bother with secondaries yet, I'm not so sure I like having the extra time. By the time we get our secondaries, school will be starting. For me, that means that I'll have a significantly smaller amount of free time with which to work on my application. Also, for those of us applying to an EDP, it really squeezes us and the med schools into a short time frame if they're going to notify us before October 1st. At the rate we're going, I'm wondering how that will ever happen.

 

[Scooby Doo]

What are you talking about?
This $hit sucks!!!!!!!!!
Now all the schools I applied to want a record of my official transcripts and a printout of my application and they are sending me secondaries already! Life is hell right now! Now the people who get all their stuff in first will be the people who send off their transcripts individually to every college, print up their 13 pages of AMCAS for EVERY school, and blah blah blah. It's a big pain!!! I applied to way too many schools to be doing that. I should have stuck with columbia, NYU, and the other nonAmcas one
Argh....

 

[moo]

We should all DEMAND refunds from AMCAS if we have to do all the printouts, sending transcripts, etc. by ourselves. I mean, we paid AMCAS to make things easier for us, by having us send in only one transcript and filling out one app. If we have to do all this ourselves now for each and every school what the hell use was AMCAS???

 

[sandflea]

you know, smoke this, the extra time *is* nice. i was starting a few essays last night and it dawned on me that i could really take my time with them instead of trying to send them out ASAP.

but, as someone else noted, for those of us that are in school, getting flooded with secondaries after classes have resumed isn't going to be pretty. i'm a grad student and i'm taking a full load of courses this semester in addition to working full-time; it's hard enough finding time to feed myself, let alone write 50 essays describing why i want to attend medical school X. plus now there will be no advantage to not taking the august MCAT; heck, if i had known it was going to be this way, i would have gone ahead and retaken it too.

but hey, maybe i'll go on vacation this summer after all. 😀

 

[Amy B]

This delay is not good to people who are borderline with some low GPA's or low MCAT. Our advisor emailed us and said that since the schools are behind they will be rushing through applicants at a much faster rate.

Those students who are borderline would have had a slightly longer look at their application by the admits, will now be thrown in the reject pile quicker because they just don't have the time to see if the low stats are a flux or the person has something else that makes up for the low stats.

🙁 🙁 😡 😡 🙁 🙁

 

[drago]

what happened to that new york times article where the amcas president was saying that if amcas hadn't sent out the apps by august 1st, they would resort to paper apps? just do it now you pieces of crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lilycat]

Originally posted by Amy Beth:
•This delay is not good to people who are borderline with some low GPA's or low MCAT. Our advisor emailed us and said that since the schools are behind they will be rushing through applicants at a much faster rate.

Those students who are borderline would have had a slightly longer look at their application by the admits, will now be thrown in the reject pile quicker because they just don't have the time to see if the low stats are a flux or the person has something else that makes up for the low stats.

🙁 🙁 😡 😡 🙁 🙁•

I wouldn't lose all hope yet. My very unofficial guess would be that more schools will be resorting to the "hold" pile, either officially or unofficially.

 

[ghettobird]

All I have to say is that you guys should learn to be frustrated...it's what this process is all about. Once your done with AMCAS and are dealing with the insane/incompetent people at the majority of medical school admissions offices, you'll find even fewer answers to your questions, and waiting periods that stretch for months between communications.

 

[kris]

Smoke This,

Have you already tried talking that office into taking a notarized, signed fax of that form? I'd hate to see you have to get even more behind due to some inflexible weenie who hasn't got the sense to deviate (within reason) from some rule.

Why do people like that ever get put in charge of anything?! Maybe you could ask to talk to someone higher up?

Again, my sympathies to all of you going through application hell.

You wouldn't be normal if you weren't frustrated.

 

[Hopkins2010]

Heres what I'm doing.

I'm going to wait and check for updates and transmission notices up until August 1st.

At 6 AM on August 1st, if AMCAS has STILL not transmitted, I'm going to get up and spend all day working on going through alternate procedures for all 26 AMCAS schools I'm applying to. Then I'm going to go to my school's transcript office and spend $130 on official transcript fees to all the schools.

The very next day, I'm going to hire a lawyer and sue AMCAS to get a refund of the $900 they charged me for this mess.

OK, so maybe I wont do the lawyer part, at any rate I have almost given up on AMCAS.

 

[MoeDaMan]

Argggggghgh

THIS IS Absolutely driving me insane!!!!

there is no way in freakin hell that I am goign to send my aMCAs application, transcripts, MCAT scores to the schools

IT TOOK AMCAS TWO MONTHS TO RELEASE MY SCORES to columbia and nyu and texas schools!!!!

so even if I wanted to do the "alternative way", I would still have to deal with them 😱 😡 😱 😡

ARGH What a bunch of #$%#$%#$%#$%#$%#

I just can't help think but other medical students will....gosh and I would feel at such a disadvantage...WAHT A FREAKIN dilemma

somehow LAW SCHOOL IS REALLY REALLY APPEALING....#$@#$@#$@#$!#^%$^&@#$@#$

 

[Smoke This]

sandflea: Yeah, maybe it's not such a good thing after all. I'll be a full time student in September as well, but instead of having 30 secondaries dumped on me then, with deadlines to meet, I'll have maybe ten or so to do over the summer, before AMCAS transmits, before any deadlines arise. That's all I'm saying, and I do sympathize very much with those of you who will have to juggle school and/or jobs to fill out secondaries.

kris: I'll try that.