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To Members of Cohort '02:
What follows is the latest e-mail from AMCAS about continuing
problems. You'll note that item number two corresponds to information I
sent to you some time ago. Item number one is potentially serious, and
AMCAS indicates that if you have initiated or filed an app you should be
hearing from them later today.
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>There are two items about the application we want to bring to your
>attention this evening.
>
>1) The first is a bug that has been reported by several applicants in the
>section of the application for designating medical schools. After
>successfully designating a number of medical schools for receipt of the
>application, and paying, certifying and submitting the application, a few
>students have noticed that 3-4 school designations were dropped from their
>application. However, the fee remained constant, reflecting the number of
>schools originally designated.
>
>This bug has been reported to our developers for corrective action. We
>will let you know as soon as corrective code is posted and will provide
>applicants with a status update on this issue on Wednesday.
>
>2) The second item has to do with the section of the application in which
>applicants enter coursework and are prompted first to enter the school,
>year and term. They experience confusion when distinguishing between
>calendar year and academic year entries. We encourage you to cut and
>paste the following instructions (which we e-mail frequently to
>applicants):
>
>When entering coursework:
>
>*Enter the calendar year in which you attempted the course in the calendar
>year field; then select the term.
>
>AMCAS assumes the academic year begins with the summer term and ends with
>the spring term. For example, the 1998 academic year begins with Summer
>1998, and continues through Fall 1998, Winter 1998/99, and Spring 1999.
>For each of these terms, "98" is the appropriate AMCAS academic year.
>
>AMCAS assumes further that for schools on the quarter system [or
>Trimesters, as Carleton - CTR], the winter quarter begins in the calendar
>month of December. If a school winter quarter actually starts in January,
>the applicant should enter the calendar year as though the quarter starts
>in December. For example, if a school's winter quarter began in January,
>1999, the applicant should select calendar December, 1998 in order to
>effect inclusion of that winter quarter in the proper academic year of
>1998.
>
>*The AMCAS application will automatically convert calendar year entries to
>the appropriate AMCAS academic year to be included on the Academic Record
>portion of the application.
>
>Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
>
>Nancy Tillinghast, AMCAS Director
>
[email protected]
