When does app get verified by

[maydaymalone]

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Hi,

I just moved my MCAT from May 6th to May 20th as I had 2 finals on May 6th and I just didnt want to reschedule both of them. Will my AMCAS app be verified without an MCAT and also when does verification happen by? I heard something about it happening near end of june so if I get my scores back on June 20th will that affect me by much?

Thanks

 

[caffeine is my drug]

If there's one school you're interested in check with them. I wasn't verified until October and it wasn't a problem because my school didn't look at apps until December. Usually there's no need to rush.


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[gyngyn]

If there's one school you're interested in check with them. I wasn't verified until October and it wasn't a problem because my school didn't look at apps until December. Usually there's no need to rush.


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We start screening in July and by October, interview slots are filled up to the last month.
Therefore, YMMV.

 

[candbgirl]

They will start to verify as soon as you submit your primary. It may take a day early in June and as the time goes on it will take weeks. They will verify without your MCAT. Primaries are sent to schools starting at the end of June beginning of July. Your MCAT will be back by June 20 so you will be just fine. You might want to only apply to one school at first to get the verification process started. Then when you get your score you can add schools that fit your total stats profile.


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[Sloppy Toppy]

Your coursework will be verified by AMCAS without MCAT scores and will be transmitted to the schools you have selected. However, for the most part, the schools will not begin to process or review your application until MCAT scores are verified and then forwarded to the schools. Nor being transmitted earlier without MCAT score somehow keep your place in the review queue by the schools. A few thoughts:

1) CON: I am sure you are aware that if do this, no matter what your MCAT score is, good or bad, all the schools will see it. My standing advice to applicants is not to apply without knowing your MCAT score. Some have use the strategy of listing a single school on your AMCAS in order to have the application verified and transmitted. Then when you get your MCAT score back and it is sufficient, then you can immediately add schools to your AMCAS. Since the application has already been verified, it will be transmitted almost immediately to the newly added schools.

2) PRO: There is one advantage of having all your schools listed on the AMCAS prior to MCAT and that is secondaries. An increasing number of schools that an applicant lists on AMCAS are pulling contact information only soon after AMCAS is submitted by the student and sending secondaries to the student. Other schools will send unscreened secondaries to the applicant upon AMCAS transmission. In this scenario, you may get a large percentage of secondaries send to you prior to ever having your MCAT score.

Do you know how long it takes to receive a secondary after you add a school onto your AMCAS (after being verified of course)? I plan on doing the one school method and waiting for my score to come out in July (probably taking the exam June 2nd or June 18th). I will do the secondaries during the the one month waiting period for my score.

 

[ciestar]

Do you know how long it takes to receive a secondary after you add a school onto your AMCAS (after being verified of course)? I plan on doing the one school method and waiting for my score to come out in July (probably taking the exam June 2nd or June 18th). I will do the secondaries during the the one month waiting period for my score.

As stated before, this is highly school dependent. But when i added an additional 11 in August, i had most of the secondaries for them within a week.

 

[Sloppy Toppy]

Completely school dependent. With 140+ programs now, you can have 140+ answers. If you have no schools, will you be trying to secondaries from previously posted prompts for the secondaries?

Correct me if I'm wrong/my timeline is wrong, but from what I've gathered a lot of secondaries come out on July 1st? Also, I see secondaries being posted on SDN as soon as they are released, so I hope to do them when I'm waiting for my score and submitting them as soon as I get my score. The only thing is I'm not entirely sure how long most schools take to send out a secondary after putting them on your AMCAS school list. As you said it varies. Do you know generally how long it takes?

 

[Sloppy Toppy]

As stated before, this is highly school dependent. But when i added an additional 11 in August, i had most of the secondaries for them within a week.

Thanks. That makes sense. One last thing. What is the earliest a person can be totally verified at most schools? So basically what's considered the earliest and what's considered early?

 

[ciestar]

Thanks. That makes sense. One last thing. What is the earliest a person can be totally verified at most schools? So basically what's considered the earliest and what's considered early?

Earliest? Technically July 1st if your MCAT, LORs, and your amcas primary is verified. Some schools take a lot longer to do this (VCU, UVM...).

The definition of an early app varies by person, but before September i consider early, but be aware some schools can start interviewing as early as July.

 

[Sloppy Toppy]

Not sure what you mean by totally verified by schools. If you mean totally complete file at school (primary, secondary, MCAT, LOR) that can happen as early as July 1st. Since some schools send out secondaries via contact info only when you submit AMCAS (prior to verification), some applicants get the secondary filled out and returned to the school before primary is transmitted. While SDN has moved the concept of submitting early to one of obsessive-paranoia that not being there on day one means almost certain disaster, it is best to refresh the timeline reality

(2017 timeline refresh posting #3)
AMCAS doesnt start transmitting until July 1st (though some schools have secondaries sent to contact info upon submission to AMCAS)
Most Primary Apps are transmitted early July thru late August
Most adcoms dont start meeting for review until at least mid-August, more likely September (though adcom staff may be doing early reviews).
Submitting Primary Application June is Early, July Medium, August Late
Having Primary verified and transmitted to school by end of August is normal speed
Having Secondary and all LORs complete to school by end of September is normal speed, by end of October is about late.

Getting primary in early does matter because of all the other items that follow it. But applicants often see the beginning and not understanding how it flows from there. Additionally, how each school then opens a file, reviews them on GPA, MCAT, and other factors, and what order they wind up in a queue has less to do with when the primary arrives then when the secondary is completed and received. Since the majority of schools, I dare say, send out pre-transmission, unscreened, or minimal cut off screened secondaries, this is probably a larger factor in where you wind up in the queue for 1) reading an application and 2) decision on interview invite. As I have said previously, and will undoubtedly say dozens of time during this 2017 application cycle, (#3) review of apps is not simply done in a linear chronological order. High achievers, URM, family of alumni, feeder schools, associated UG programs, linked postbaccs, and other factor may push an app forward in the process.

Thanks. I'll probably take the MCAT in mid June reading all this. Pretty sure I have a good timeline set (submitting the primary with one throwaway school in June, adding schools the day my MCAT comes out, and doing secondries s I wait for my score). I plan on getting everything in by the end of July, which from what you are telling me isn't late at all. Thanks for all the info.