When/How to Verify my AMCAS Application

[SKaminski]

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Hey everyone,

I searched, and found threads peripherally related, but not directly related to my questions here.

First, I know that it takes AMCAS about 6 weeks to verify your application. That means if I want to apply on June 1st, i need them to be verifying my application by April 20th. My understanding that the only way to do that is to apply to a med school (pretty much throwing away the application money, since my mcat wont be taken until April 27th).

Is that a correct understanding? I need to grab some school that has rolling admissions that i don't care about, submit the application, and just wait for verification?

Secondly, for this pre-emptive submit-for-verification, what information MUST be entered?

On the AMCAS website, they have the following sections:

Identifying Information
Schools Attended
Biographic Information
Course Work
Work/Activities
Letters of Evaluation
Medical Schools
Essays
Standardized Tests

So, to submit an application, which of these fields are required? (I am asking because i want to budget my time appropriatly. I don't want to spend hours chasing down professors for LoR's, and writing a personal statement BEFORE i take my MCAT, if i can write them after.) Is the Work/Activities section required?

Lastly, after verification/submission, which application sections are further editable? If i have additional Work/Activities to add, can I? If i have addition Letters of Eval to add, can I?

Thanks!

 

[DrBtobe]

I don't think you can even access the application until May and then June is the first time you can submit your application for verification.

If you want to work ahead, pull all of your information together CV style so that you can plug it in, have your personal statement ready to go, and have your LOR ready to go. I had the people submitting my LOR send their letters to interfolio before June where they could wait-then when the application opened I had interfolio release the letters to AMCAS.

 

[red doctober]

First off, relax. It's really not necessary to get your application in on the first possible day.

This is your number one AMCAS-related resource: https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/amcas/

Basically, AMCAS opens up for entering information on May 1st, and the earliest you can submit for verification is June 4. Verification is a first-come-first-serve basis. Don't be sitting at your computer on 11:59pm on June 3rd constantly refreshing the page, as long as your submit during June, you'll be in the first wave of applications that go out to med schools. To be verified, the things that you don't need to have submitted at the time are: LORs, MCAT report, and list of schools that will receive your primary (you just need one). However, schools will not look at your app until you have everything in. I don't believe you can edit your PS or Activities after your app has been verified.

 

[SKaminski]

I don't think you can even access the application until May and then June is the first time you can submit your application for verification.

If you want to work ahead, pull all of your information together CV style so that you can plug it in, have your personal statement ready to go, and have your LOR ready to go. I had the people submitting my LOR send their letters to interfolio before June where they could wait-then when the application opened I had interfolio release the letters to AMCAS.

Oh, wow. See, I've alreay gone into AMCAS and inputted in a majority of my information. I guess that information doesn't carry over into the new application, then?

And thanks for the other replies, red doctober (lol), and Wolverine fan.

So, you guys are saying that there really is nothing i can do except a) make sure i've got my personal statement reviewed and ready, b) make sure i've got my LoRs successfully created, and C) Just wait, dammit!

 

[latebutterflu]

The Work/Activity descriptions actually took a LOT longer to complete than I thought they would - it would be helpful to have those completed along with your 3 "most meaningful" mini-essays.

 

[SKaminski]

I just realized one last thing. I've already sent them my transcripts. Will i need to send them again, or will those be kept?

 

[skais595]

More important that submitting on day 1 is making sure everything is perfect even if it takes a couple extra days! But no matter what, I think there is a day where the first verifications happen. Like this year I think no one was verified until June 29...or if they were verified, no apps were sent to schools until that day.