<p>I strongly recommend to every LOR requester that you write out a packet to aide the professor. Include grades, jobs, ECs + descriptions, research, family, travel, etc. Anything that they might find useful in writing a better letter.</p>
<p>MCAT- I just recall that she emailed a link to a prof or two to have them fill out some sort of an evaluation form, similar to what a GC would fill out for a university application. No prof ever responded, DD finally just submitted her LORs from Cal and that seemed fine, two TX schools invited her for interviews, so it must have been okay ;)</p>
<p>somemom, Glad to hear that. It may be almost impossible to track down some professors during summer. Should DS be asked to do this, I guess he may be able to ask his premed advisor to do this for him. I think the premed advisor from his premed committee is like a consoulor during the college application cycle, except she probaly did more for medical school applicants. I think it is her (or somebody who works for her?) who wrote the combined committee letter.</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>Just noticed on TMDSAS:
Fees:
Date Received: 7/12/2010
Status: Processed.</p>
<p>MCAT:
Date received: 7/6/2010
Test date: 5/27/2010
(Unlike on AMCAS, the scores are not shown. Only the date received is shown here. Does it mean they have received the mcat scores?)</p>
<p>Transcripts were received by TMDSAS more than one month ago.</p>
<p>But
Letter of evaluation:
HPE Packet from School: Status: Pending.</p>
<p>Does this mean TMDSAS will now start to process the application and then release it to medical schools? Or, will it still wait for the HPE Packet to be received before it starts to process it?</p>
<p>Things to do:
- request the HPE to be released (Is this usually done by a snail mail (like fees) or by uploading between the school’s premed committee and TMDSAS?
- secondaries at each school’s web site.
Thanks for any inputs.</p>
<p>If TMDSAS work like AMCAS, they will release the application to the medical schools after they manually verify the transcripts. The LORs will be forwarded to the schools once they are received.</p>
<p>(where is curm?, we are talking Texas here!) ;)</p>
<p>From what i have seen, most premed committees begin sending the letters mid july.</p>
<p>lol. I can’t remember squat about the mechanics of this process. I can’t even remember if I ever knew this stuff. When folks start talking about the mechanics my eyes just glaze over. I got nothing. I’m guessing my kid did all of this without any involvement by me. That , or I need to start taking Aricept.</p>
<p>curm is actually better at AMCAS than at TMDSAS. Proof for this? When all things are said and done, he sends his D to an AMCAS school, not a TMDSAS school :)</p>
<p>OK, curm or any others, a simpler question for you. Today is July 13. Considering my child’s progress today, is he too late (for texas schools)? It appears to me that many texas kids had completed their applications by the beginning of June.</p>
<p>MyOpinon. thanks for your input.</p>
<p>Well DS finally got LOR from the premed advisor so now he knows the pressure is on for those secondaries. Three completed and in, fourth is in final stages; still too many outstanding. What’s surprising is that he has only heard from one instate school. From what I can glean from SDN the other instate schools have yet to send out secondaries. We’re hoping that their delay will work in his favor as he catches up now that the LORs are in. His PI still hasn’t written his LOR but he’s going to go ahead without it until he feels comfortable that it will be coming. At that point he’ll add it on.</p>
<p>DD did AMCAS mid June and TX was submitted by the end of June, but then it seems like there were other details that came up after, like mailing the check and the LORs etc. I think it was early to mid July before she was done. It also felt like it took forever to be complete in TX. She got two interview invites in the fall. Ome invite came in Oct and one in Nov.</p>
<p>It did feel like she was way behind all the kids on SDN</p>
<p>I went over to sdn and looked around on the TMDSAS thread and from what I can see it’s taking about a month now from submission. I know my D was early (like first week with everything) and had 3 Texas interviews (UTHSCSA, UTMB, A&M) before she went back to school for the fall. I didn’t see any invites to any Texas schools posted yet and my memory is that they only gave you a week or two notice. Texas interviews start and end earlier than most schools because of the pre-match. </p>
<p>Sorry that I can’t be more specific but I’d be hustling to get everything in pronto.</p>
<p>D just looked at my answers and said I was there through most of it. That worries me. 
She also said that her pre-med advisor handled the upload of the committee packet (in her case that included all her individual letters). Everything went to him and he transmitted. What a great guy. ;)</p>
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<p>Heat stroke maybe? :)</p>
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Yeah. Let’s go with that. ;)</p>
<p>hey curm:</p>
<p>remember back in the dark ages, when we were all engaged in acts of killing brain cells. Oh yeah, we can’t remember that far back… :D</p>
<p>I call it having wisdom for selective memory / selective purging, skills acquired after certain age. Actually very helpful, since after awhile nobody bothers to check if you remember this or that, they know that you don’t, much more peacefull existance.</p>
<p>curm, I have my share of senior moment. At my age, I admit I am not as sharp as my child on many aspects. I am still better than him on fafsa or dealing with tax men though.</p>
<p>Somehow I have a feeling that most people (students or premed advisors) at his school know much more about AMCAS than TMDSAS. He did not know anybody in his circle of friends who had been applying to texas schools (besides maybe baylor, which is an AMCAS school.) His high school classmates may be better resources on this (if he asks) as I once heard from him that several of them would start at some texas medical school this fall.</p>
<p>He may be more enthusiastic on polishing his newly acquired cooking skills than working on his secondaries now. He said if he got into some rural schools (dartmouth?) where there are only 3 restaurants, his cooking would be much more important as otherwise he could not take care his nutritous needs. A good excuse! There may be not many interviewers out there who would like to talk to him about cooking. At least he has the common sense of not putting this newly found hobby into his list of activities on his primary application.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Heck. I’d have put it. A dude who cooks? Segue that into a secondary app. </p>
<p>As far as app’s go…Maybe it’s time for “un-common sense”. ;)</p>
<p>Really. I’m not joking. I think it’s a great topic. Mad cooking skillz with (tiny, non-gratuitous, not pandering, subtle) nod to a nutrition/health angle.</p>
<p>And the second part isn’t even required. Don’t let it over-ride the interest in cooking as relaxation, as an art form, as cultural awareness, as…you get the picture.</p>
<p>Med schools have enough automatons. They may be looking for a man who can and will make a crepe. ;)</p>
<p>Hey, Hanover has more than three restaurants; not many more, but “more.” But I second the thought about cooking essays. It beats the heck out of, “I first got interested in medicine becasue fill-in-the-blank was hospitalized/near death and…”</p>
<p>lol, bluebayou, you have just described one of DS’s essays unfortunately! I guess he would get some negative points instead of a bonous here.</p>