June 30th MCAT

WayOutWestMom
Thu, 09 May 2019 22:05:58 +0000

@honcho

AMCAS has opened for pre-application for the 2019-2020 cycle. You should open an account now and start filling out your primary application. Once AMCAS officially opens in early June --or whenever your school releases grades for the most recent term–have official transcripts sent. Many colleges do this electronically. There is form to give to the registrar’s office at your college on AMCAS that has your unique AMCAS ID on it. The registrar needs the ID to upload the transcripts to the right application.

You need your primary filled out w/ at ;least 1 school on your application list and transcripts sent in & received to get in line for verification–a process which can take up to a month. You can be verified without a MCAT score, but your application won’t be transmitted to schools without a MCAT score attached. Once your MCAT score is added to your application (happens automatically when scores are released), it will be transmitted to all the med schools on your list within a week. AMCAS uploads applications to med schools in batches once a week. (IIRC, they used to do it on Thursdays or Fridays.)

You can add LORs to your file at any time before or after verification.

With June 30th MCAT date, you’d get your test scores back around the end of July. Sending out your primary the end of July/1st week of August isn’t considered late. So long as you are able to return your secondaries in a timely fashion (i.e. within 2 weeks being received), you should be fine.

I would suggest pre-writing your secondaries while you wait for your MCAT score to come back.

Don’t underestimate the amount of time & energy it takes to write strong secondary essays.