What can we consider early vs. late application

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What app can we consider amazingly early?
What can we consider early?
What can we consider normal?
What can we consider late?

Thank you; you people are amazing by the way.

 

[TheRealMD]

What app can we consider amazingly early? first day
What can we consider early? before mid-july
What can we consider normal? before mid-august
What can we consider late? after mid-august

Thank you; you people are amazing by the way.

Do keep in mind that you don't want to be normal EVER doing this process and it's always a shifting target, especially with the CBT changing things up this year. If you're still asking this question, then you still have a lot of work to do. Get crackin! 🙂

Also, if you haven't sent in your transcripts, you won't have a complete app for at least 3 weeks. Send them ASAP if you haven't already. AMCAS takes its sweet time with those things before saying they've received them.

 

[deuce924]

I learned early in this process that you must think 3 steps ahead. Like already stated, submitting something doesn't mean its done just then. Transcripts take time to be received, AMCAS takes time to be verified, and secondaries take time to be sent out. Early, normal, and late are very subjective terms ad probably even more so with CBT MCATs.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

The other side of the story is to quickly complete your file with the school. It does no good to have your primary submitted the first day if you sit on your secondaries until the deadline.

 

[premeddick]

The other side of the story is to quickly complete your file with the school. It does no good to have your primary submitted the first day if you sit on your secondaries until the deadline.

This is so true. And you have to remember how many things in this process are outside your control; when your transcripts arrive, when you get verified at AMCAS; when your letters get written, when your letters get sent in, when the school's reviewer decides to read your packet. The only way to make sure that you near the beginning of the line on these things is to think three steps in advance and to be diligent about making sure that everyone is doing their part...