Yale News

Just got this....Dear Yale Applicant:

I am writing to bring you up to date on the AMCAS situation in so far as
it might affect your application to the Yale School of Medicine and to
address some important issues that have been raised by applicants over
the past few days. (The items are numbered for easy reference.)

1) AMCAS Application Status: With regard to the status of your AMCAS
application, it is important to understand the difference between
"submission" and "transmission." Even though you might successfully
have submitted your AMCAS application, it has not yet been transmitted
to Yale. We only know that you have applied to Yale via AMCAS because,
in response to on-going technical problems with its web-based
application, AMCAS has provided applicant contact information to medical
schools via an alternate process.

2) Yale Application Status: In other words, despite what you might
think, you are not in our database as an applicant for 2002 unless you
have submitted your Yale Supplemental Application via our on-line
process (http://info.med.yale.edu/medadmit/).

3) Transition Procedures: In view of technical difficulties with the
AMCAS 2002 application and protracted transmission delays from AMCAS, we
have devised optional "Transition Procedures" to enable applicants to
jump-start Yale's evaluation process. These procedures seem to be
working well so far, and we are pleased that so many applicants have
found them helpful, but you should understand that this is truly
optional. If you prefer to wait for AMCAS to transmit your application
in a "normal" manner, you may certainly do so. We do not have rolling
admissions. As long as you meet our deadlines, you will neither gain
nor lose any advantage by using (or not using) our Transition
Procedures. (For additional information, please see: http://medapps05.med.yale.edu/ows-msa/Transition.htm.)

4) Academic Record and MCAT Scores: After submitting your AMCAS
application, it goes though what AMCAS calls "processing," which means
that your academic information is confirmed by AMCAS, and your MCAT
scores are added to your AMCAS electronic file. This "processing" might
have occurred even though your application has not yet been transmitted
to Yale or other medical schools. When you print your AMCAS
application, if your academic record and MCAT scores appear, you do not
need to send separate transcripts or MCAT scores reports in conjunction
with our Transition Procedures. If your academic record and MCAT score
sections are blank, this means that your application has not yet been
"processed" by AMCAS, and you should send (unofficial) copies of your
transcripts and MCAT scores to Yale if you are following our Transition
Procedures.

5) Order of applying: Yale does not "screen" AMCAS applications. All
AMCAS applicants are invited to submit a Yale Supplemental Application,
either before or after submitting an AMCAS application. The evaluation
of your application will begin as soon as everything has arrived – in
whatever form and whatever order.

6) Status Checks: It is simply impossible for us to check the status of
your application over the telephone or by e-mail. However, if you have
submitted your Yale Supplemental Application, you will eventually be
able to check your status on line
(http://medapps05.med.yale.edu/ows-msa/status.htm). I say "eventually"
because it takes time for us to bring the status-check site up to date.
Please be patient.

7) "Complete" Yale Applications: If you are using our Transition
Procedures, and if your application has moved into what we call the
"review" stage, you will see this indicated in the status-check site as
"Complete and in review." However, your application won't actually be
complete in a final sense until we receive the official transmission
from AMCAS. We now think that transmissions may start by early
September, but even if that happens, it will take many weeks for AMCAS
to catch up with the backlog. We will both have to be patient!

8) Checks not yet cashed: Do not be concerned if your application fee
check has not yet been cashed, and please do not stop payment. Because
of the unusual nature of this year's procedures, our routine system for
recording financial information has been slowed to a crawl. We will
process checks as quickly as we can.

9) Please hit the "submit" button: A number of applicants have sent to
Yale their printed AMCAS application and supporting material, and sent
the Certification Page and application fee as required in our
Supplemental Application, but they have not yet actually submitted their
Supplemental Application on line. If you have finished with the Yale
Supplemental Application, please remember to hit the all-important
"submit" button so the evaluation process can move forward.

Finally, I want to thank you for applying to the Yale School of Medicine
and for the great effort you have already put into your application.
Please let us know if we can be of assistance in any way.

Sincerely,

Richard A. Silverman
Director of Admissions