It'd help to know how competitive your GPA/ECs are, but in general... you want to submit your application as soon as possible. It takes a month for your MCAT score to come back... so you want your primary verified around the same time, so there's no idle waiting period. To do this... you'll probably need to submit in early June, if that's possible.
Do your AACOMAS first, since you have a better shot at still getting interviews with a lower MCAT score than with the 2 MD schools. It's also better to be early for 9 schools than 2. Once you get your MCAT score back, you can decide if it's even worth filling out AMCAS or not.
If you submit your primary in early June, and take your MCAT in mid-June... you should be considered "complete" by the end of July. Which means secondaries will start rolling in by August... which is still early and great for your chances at getting interview invites.
Thanks for the the helpful insight. But I heard that admissions committees don't even look at applications until they receive MCAT scores? My main concern right now is just preparing as much as possible for the MCAT, leaving me with minimal time to prepare well-written personal statements (do you think I could use a single written PS for all of the schools I apply to, or would that not be a good idea?). But it sounds like you both are making it seem as if DO schools will look over applications in the order they are received, regardless of whether the MCAT score is sent to them yet or not. Is that correct, or am I better off focusing solely on studying for the MCAT until mid june and then focusing on writing the personal statements and getting them in as soon as possible after I have taken the MCAT? Thanks again.
Btw, I attended Emory and Henry College and will be graduating with a BS in Biology this July; made Dean's list 1st and second years, and fall semester of senior year. My cGPA is 3.53 (yes it is pretty average because I had to take a lot of liberal arts classes that I wasn't really interested in), and my sGPA is about a 3.42 (very unprepared for the challenges of 300 and 400 level sciences due to not having taken any science AP in high school; did very well in 100 and 200 level sciences). I have 100 hours volunteering in the ER (9-12am on Thursdays and 6-12am on Fridays for 3 months last summer), 3 months of research with my biology professor on Gypsy Moth prevention, a year of interface stress fracture research with my chemistry professor, 50 hours of shadowing between a family doctor I know (wrote one of my LORs), a GI, and a Pediatrician, volunteered at a food pantry one semester (also set up a food drive to raise canned good donations for them), volunteer club member that reaches out to general student needs on campus (1 semester), volunteer english/math tutor at a local middle school (1 semester), worked 1 year as a writing tutor for the college, and this may or may not matter, but I played classical piano for 11 years (took a year and a half of advanced lessons at my college) and always won the "piano performance award" at the performing arts high school I attended for 3 years.
My awards at college include Outstanding First Year Biology Student, pre-health scholarships 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years, and Phi Eta Sigma national academic honor society (for doing well in 1st year), inducted into Sigma Mu Honor Society (membership given to top 10% of graduating seniors). I started out my first 2 years strong (3.78 cGPA), but I went through a breakup with a girl before junior year and it really got to me and my grades started declining. End of my junior year I was sitting at about a 3.34 cGPA (yeah, my grades were that bad--about a C+/B- average throughout junior year), but I managed a 4.0 last semester and a 3.56 this semester, which I suppose would count as a slight upward trend in grades.
