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During the rest of the verification season, which apparently spills into Sept!</p>
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It has been a chaotic 24 hours for AMCAS. Yesterday afternoon, they announced that transmission of applications would be postponed to July 5, only do a 180 this morning and announce that they were transmitting applications on the previous schedule, starting today.</p>
<p>Kali,
My kid is apparently in that 12000 number.</p>
<p>Way to go Pinkstuffz. Good luck to you!!</p>
<p>I’m thinking my son needs to send his transcript now. He’ll be applying next year. Do you think they’ll verify it in time?</p>
<p>LOL, Limabeans!</p>
<p>Strangely, even though our D hasn’t been verified, she received a secondary today as well. How’d this happen?</p>
<p>Re: Secondaries</p>
<p>Do med schools send secondaries to all their applicants? Do some send them only to select applicants? If so, do y’all know which schools automatically send them and which ones only send them to preferred candidates?</p>
<p>Some schools screen their applicant pool based on certain MCAT and GPA cut-offs, while others don’t.</p>
<p>On the flip side, I believe Michigan hands out automatic interview invites to applicants with a certain MCAT/GPA combo.</p>
<p>Most schools sent secondaries to all applicants. Some schools screen applicants and only send secondaries to applicants who meet certain theshold qualifications. </p>
<p>Some state med school will screen for state resident status and auto-reject applicants who don’t meet residency criteria. </p>
<p>Off hand, I know Wake Forest, Loyola, Vanderbilt, and Toledo screen applicants. I’ve also heard the VCU does also. For the most accurate information–check the MSAR since it’s in there.</p>
<p>Screened does not mean preferred. I know of two applicants to one of those schools who received secondaries and were then auto-rejected iess than 12 hours after submitting secondaries & payment.</p>
<p>Thanks, mrpenguin & wowm! We have the msar online, and apparently all but two on her list send out secondaries to all applicants. </p>
<p>Did you/your kids create a spreadsheet to organize everything during the cycle? If so, what was included?</p>
<p>I love screened secondaries compared to schools that send it, get the money, then auto-reject in a time frame that makes it nearly impossible to have even read the apps. That borders on being a money making scam.</p>
<p>I am still convinced that my D’s Chicago secondary must have been titled “Why I Started that Big Fire and Blamed It On The Cow”.</p>
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I remember reading on the 2013 Michigan thread that they are no longer doing automatic interview invitations. The cut offs for auto interviews in the previous years were 3.8/36.</p>
<p>Here, I found the quote:</p>
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<p>Some screen, most don’t. There is probably a list on that other premed site. Off the top of my head, I know Washington state does and maybe some UCs.</p>
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Still laughing curm. Thanks</p>
<p>Curm - are you sure it was not the offer of livestock as a bribe?</p>
<p>D has just received a secondary from WUSTL eventhough her transcript was just received by AMCAS on the 25th and she has not been verified yet. I think WUSTL knows her MCAT score because she got a postcard urging her to apply (or do they send that to everyone?). </p>
<p>Is there any downside to sending in the secondary now? Or should she just have it ready and send it when verified?</p>
<p>Isn’t it that schools become aware you are applying because you have paid the fee even if the application is not verified?</p>
<p>They must know that your application is into AMCAS and that you listed their school as one to which you are applying. </p>
<p>Do you think she could just slip her GPA and MCAT score into the optional essay and be in the pool for receiving an interview invite? No matter how slow AMCAS is in verifying. It’s tempting.</p>
<p>WUSTL is very picky about GPA and scores.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you need to be that concerned if they already know your D’s score and have released a secondary this quickly. You can have it ready to go or send it now but they will still need the app in order to call someone for an interview anyway. I assume it won’t matter when you file the secondary since they already sent it.</p>
<p>You should fill it out but it doesn’t mean jack. A few years ago I got a postcard and then a pre interview rejection. Many schools don’t wait for verification because the odds that someone lies on AMCAS are very slim</p>
<p>Like mcatflow said on the last page, WashU has had their secondary up since June 20th. I can’t really see any harm in submitting the secondary without having your primary verified, but IWannaBeBrown cautioned that submitting one without the other might mess with their bookkeeping system.</p>
<p>Sorry. Looks like I x-posted with Brown.</p>