<p>^^^</p>
<p>Can you clarify. Those dates are for 2013. What about 2012 (this summer!)</p>
<p>2013 is the year they will be entering med school.</p>
<p>Those are the dates when AMCAS opens so you can start to fill out the app and then the day you can click the submit button. Takes a while to fill out the app, or at least it should!</p>
<p>And a while to work on the personal statement. And tweak your list.</p>
<p>Hope that helps mom2collegekids!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>And thank you Curm for the dates!!</p>
<p>Everyone needs to take a look at these to get an idea of when they need to start getting things done.</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Ahhh…thanks! I should have realized that. lol</p>
<p>Oh boy…things are earlier than I thought! </p>
<p>Sooooooo glad that Curmy posted this thread.</p>
<p>WHY am I thinking that AMCAS opened in June or July…did it used to?</p>
<p>June 5th is the first day to submit but you have the month of May to fill it all in. </p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>oh…thanks…just got a text from my son with similar info. (thank goodness he wasn’t relying on me for the info. 
My mind had everything a month behind…open in June, submit in July.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarifications! :)</p>
<p>So, just to clarify…</p>
<p>Between May 1 and June 5th the student…</p>
<p>1) Fill out the app</p>
<p>2) have LORs sent to AMCAS</p>
<p>3) have transcripts sent to AMCAS after finals.</p>
<p>4) write personal statement.</p>
<p>5) have MCAT sent.</p>
<p>^That would be ideal, but it’s not always that straightforward. Sometimes recommenders can be slow to finish letters; committees might not interview during certain summer months; revisions to the PS might take longer than expected; transcript requests take awhile to process; etc. </p>
<p>If you can hit the AMCAS submit button in June, in my opinion, you’re ahead of the game. Keep in mind AMCAS doesn’t even send stuff to schools until practically July. Getting in with that first phase of applications would certainly be a good idea. </p>
<p>It seems like you’ll start running into hiccups if AMCAS is submitted August or later, and if secondaries are submitted October or later. </p>
<p>Goes without saying, the earlier the better!</p>
<p>Ask for letters ASAP, it can be extremely difficult to get in touch with the writers over the summer. Check with your school to see if they can collect them or else start an interfolio account, have them sent now. You could also have transcripts sent to Interfolio from any other schools (summer school, college courses in HS, etc) </p>
<p>If you really want to push it, check SDN for the list of chosen schools and prethink the answers for likely secondaries. Of course you need the MCAT score first to determine the list of schools beyond your state school(s).</p>
<p>*“Ask for letters ASAP, it can be extremely difficult to get in touch with the writers over the summer. Check with your school to see if they can collect them or else start an interfolio account, have them sent now. You could also have transcripts sent to Interfolio from any other schools (summer school, college courses in HS, etc)” *</p>
<p>Yes, he’s done that. He’s using the same profs that wrote his scholarship LORs a month ago. They’re tweaking them for SOM apps. Then they go to Committee.</p>
<p>The interfolio thing is unfamiliar to me. What exactly is that? What is all sent to that and why? Do things go from Interfolio to AMCAS or what? </p>
<p>“If you really want to push it, check SDN for the list of chosen schools and prethink the answers for likely secondaries. Of course you need the MCAT score first to determine the list of schools beyond your state school(s).”</p>
<p>Will do…son actually has two lists…one for better MCAT and one for not-so-hot MCAT. Some schools are on the same list. I really don’t expect him to do fabulously on the MCAT since he’s not a super test taker. Anything in the 30s will be happily accepted. (fingers-crossed and praying daily…MCAT on Saturday!)</p>
<p>Interfolio is a service to which the applicant can have transcripts/LORs/etc. submitted and held. Interfolio can then forward them onto the schools or the AMCAS, etc.</p>
<p>In some cases it works better for the applicant to have their school do all that, for my DD’s application it worked better to use Interfolio, her school charged more and provided less control for her.</p>
<p>M2CK- you might want to start your own new thread 2012-2013 med school applicants to gather a new group together.</p>
<p>^Good idea, I just gave a bump to the thread started earlier, so applicants/parents can start asking application questions there.</p>
<p>Also, thanks for the tip about Interfolio!</p>
<p>Don’t some schools require uploading all LOR’s to one of these hosting sites, like interfolio specifically?</p>
<p>I had no idea students themselves could use interfolio. I vaguely remember my schools mentioning they accepted letters from AMCAS without mentioning how they handled interfolio. I was under the impression interfolio is kind of a “thing of the (recent) past” because the AMCAS online LOR system has now been streamlined. I could be totally wrong though!</p>
<p>I just did what my committee told me to do (which is what I described above) and it worked out just fine :)</p>