No, AMCAS has no control over your individual apps to colleges. Each college will have a portal you are filing your secondaries at and receiving additional information from.
Sorry. I’m still confused. Do you need to go into each Med school you apply to and create an account? How do you know the secondary app is available to you? Or are you referring to the schools that give all applicants a chance to fill out secondaries.
As much info as you can supply is appreciated. And elementary level is fine. 
@ParkTN The expectation is that the school you apply to will issue you a secondary. When they issue a secondary, they provide you a process to logon to their website and fill the information. Some schools may already have it available without prescreening. WashU St Louis is one of those schools. I don’t know if there are others since I don’t follow many of the schools. If you are applying to TMDSAS, the Texas school process, there are two schools where you can logon to their own websites and file a secondary as you file your app to all schools.
You may want to go to SDN to read how the schools do their secondaries and also what essays need to be written for each school. If you are certain a secondary will be issued then essays can be prepared in advance.
Once an individual med school has received your child’s primary application from AMCAS and has processed it (and if it passes preliminary screening at those schools that pre-screen), the specific school will send an email notice to the email address your child included in his AMCAS primary application. That email will include a link to the application portal for that school along with a unique password for your child to use. (Your child can sometimes change the password when he creates his account, but not always. Have your child create a spreadsheet or list of passwords since forgetting/losing a password is a big no-no. Admission offices won’t reissue/reset a lost password.)
The portal will be the primary means of communication with the school throughout the cycle. Secondaries–when they are offered-- will be posted to and uploaded thru the school’s admission portal.
Application status update notices will also be through the portal so it’s vital that your child check the portals of each school regularly. The only notification of missing application parts will be through the portal.
IIs can come via the portal (or by email) and interview scheduling will done through the portal. Some schools issue admission decisions via the portal. (Others use email. October 15th acceptances are often done via phone calls with a follow-up email a few days later.)
Ok great-thank you to both of you. Glad to know email is usually the first contact. And I really appreciate the password tip!!! We are all so used to being able to retrieve lost passwords that I see how easily an important one could be lost. I will check SDN. Just taking this one step at a time. Primary is in, so now having questions about secondary. Too much to think through all at once.
has your primary been verified and turned over to colleges?
AMCAS hasn’t sent primaries out to med schools yet. (And won’t until Friday.)
Really? Why are they saying verified through 10th? I was under the impression when they say verified, they have been released and they were supposed start releasing early this month.
Edit: I found AMCAS list the date of transmission as July 1st. I guess D’s application will make in a couple of weeks and not necessarily a month behind. In Texas she is about 6 weeks behind.
DS is not yet verified either. They are verified up until the around the 11th so he has a couple of weeks to go. His score just came down so he is fiddling with his list. He ended up with a great score but not a GREAT score.
Waiting for my sons list as well…Not verified yet and Im freaking out.
The way I understand it, med schools are receiving all verified info today. When will the secondaries start coming in? Is it today or will it take schools few days? Son applied to 26 school and didn’t prewrite anything. Wouldn’t listen to my advice. So now he will probably be slammed with essays. Do they all come in at the same time? He only has 2 schools on his list that prescreen. Also, I know this has been asked and answered, but he claims that SDN is saying that secondary has to be turned back in 2 to 3 days. I thought it was 2 weeks?
2-3 weeks should be fine. I can feel your S’s upcoming pain. Besides the waiting after everything was submitted, I remember the secondaries being the worst part of application experience. Trying to cobble together responsive short answers (4-500 characters (?)) to secondary questions was very draining on S. Good luck to your S.
Secondaries will arrive over the next few days. He may get some today, and most will arrive within a week. Each school has to process received applications first before sending out portal links/passwords. (At most schools, the secondary questions are pre-loaded on the portals.) Some are more efficient at it than others.
A few schools (mostly state med schools) will sit on RD applications until all ED applications have been processed and dealt with. (Our state med school doesn’t send out secondaries to RD applicants until early September, for example.) Checking on SDN to see if secondaries have been sent out can help calm anxiety.
Secondaries should be returned as quickly as possible. Within a week for as many as possible, all within 2 weeks. (Or it looks like you’re not interested in that school. Med schools want you to show them the love……) Your file won’t be complete until all required materials are received–primary, secondary, LORs, fee, photo (if required). So long as your file is incomplete, the adcomm won’t review it.**
**There is some empirical evidence that some files get pre-reviewed or fast-tracked. Once committee letters go out, an awfully lot of IIs seem to go out a day or two later, esp to highly desirable applicants (like high stats URMs).
Good luck to you all. It is very stressful for students and parents, but don’t freak out - you are in good shape if your child has submitted and waiting on verification. Last cycle my D was on a study abroad in May and early June. She did not submit till the first of July (I was freaking out, but she was not!). She was verified by the end of the month, received three II in late August/early September, interviewed in October, and had three acceptances by the first of November. I know that isn’t everyone’s experience, but my D was not a perfect applicant, had a few not optimal things in her app, and it worked out.
If your child gets secondaries soon, encourage them to finish them before school starts. D struggled to finish some (and didn’t finish some) once school started and she was extremely busy.
Wishing success to your sons and daughters.
While it is a good idea to return your student’s secondaries promptly (since med schools are typically on a rolling admission process), how quickly you return them has absolutely no bearing to a medical school’s view of an applicant’s interest to their med school. That interest will come out during the interview. I serve on an admissions committee at a medical school in the midwest and I ALWAYS ask at least these three questions to every applicant: 1) Why do you want to be a physician? 2) Why do you want to come to our medical school? 3) Where do yo see yourself 10 years from now?
Good luck to all applicants!
He got 2 secondaries already. One from a school that prescreens. His committee letter won’t be in until after August 1st so he won’t be complete until then. I read on SDN that until your file is complete the ADCOMS don’t look at your application. But it’s interesting what waymom said. Son is not URM. Just your average white boy from an upper middle class neighborhood with high stats. So I don’t think med schools will be lining up to get him.
I have heard that recommendations are not a requirement for issuing secondaries for most schools.
My daughter got a couple secondaries today as well. She was happy to have something to do finally! I think that will wear off if a bunch more roll in : )
Best wishes for everyone this app season!!
Wine is the answer to all questions during the next few months. 
Can’t believe it’s been 3 years since son went thru this (time flies). He starts rotations now. Yay!
Lol @mom2collegekids. I started drinking already.