Why schools ask for classes twice?

[andaz]

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Hey all I submitted all my secondaries during Thanksgiving (very late I know) and so of course I have already gave a list of all of my classes to them. My question is: why do schools ask for the classes again when you've already submitted them on AMCAS??

I am asking this in conjunction with something else that has concerned me as I'm waiting for decisions, that is I realized just a week ago that AP credit that exempts me from one semester English does not count toward the 6 semesters they want but I also don't know whether my semester of intensive writing in the criminal justice department counts as an english/humanities course.

So I'm wondering whether I shouldn't be worrying about prerequisites because once you get your secondaries schools have already made sure you already fulfill their basics?

I'm pretty aware I should have realized these things a while ago...my stupidity but I am trying to squeeze them in my last semester just in time so my rejections are not based on my lack of prereqs.

Thanks in advance for all the responses.

 

[mauberley]

Hey all I submitted all my secondaries during Thanksgiving (very late I know) and so of course I have already gave a list of all of my classes to them. My question is: why do schools ask for the classes again when you've already submitted them on AMCAS??

I am asking this in conjunction with something else that has concerned me as I'm waiting for decisions, that is I realized just a week ago that AP credit that exempts me from one semester English does not count toward the 6 semesters they want but I also don't know whether my semester of intensive writing in the criminal justice department counts as an english/humanities course.

So I'm wondering whether I shouldn't be worrying about prerequisites because once you get your secondaries schools have already made sure you already fulfill their basics?

I'm pretty aware I should have realized these things a while ago...my stupidity but I am trying to squeeze them in my last semester just in time so my rejections are not based on my lack of prereqs.

Thanks in advance for all the responses.

I'm not aware of schools predicating secondary availability on meeting prerequisites. The expectation is that by /matriculation/ you have satisfied the required courses, not at application time.

Just send an email to the school asking if you meet their requirements.

As for why schools require you to provide information again--I suspect every school has different reasons. Maybe they're not set up to automatically fit the AMCAS info to whatever system they have. *shrug*

 

[andaz]

thanks for the info yea i think i just needed to talk to the schools themselves to find out about the english thing. I decided to just take one english intensive writing and not beat myself over the head about it...it turns out my AP credit does indeed count for most schools though not all of them.