<p>I'm a first year student at UVA and I am just curious about seeing the AMCAS application and a secondary application. Obviously, I don't want to register since I'm not applying right now. I want to see the apps. so that I can get an idea of their complexity. Thanks.</p>
<p>Not sure where you could find an AMCAS.</p>
<p>Secondaries vary so much that seeing any given one would not be useful.</p>
<p>They’re not complicated in any case.</p>
<p>AMCAS wants your address, some basic demographic info. They ask for your fifteen most significant activities, awards, or publications and give you a short space to explain them. They ask you to punch in your courses and grades, then they ask you for a personal statement. Ta-da.</p>
<p>Secondaries generally have extra essays associated with them, which are very very annoying.</p>
<p>Thanks, that’s sort of what I wanted to know. The personal statement is why I want to go into medicine? Or, who I am? Nevermind, I’m sure it’s a little bit of both. Again, I thank you for taking time out to answer my question.</p>
<p>The two questions are very intertwined.</p>
<p>Here is what a verified AMCAS looks like: <a href=“http://doctajay.studentdoctor.net/2006/07/13/verified/[/url]”>http://doctajay.studentdoctor.net/2006/07/13/verified/</a></p>
<p>How does he plan on revising his personal statement now that his app is verified? Am I missing something obvious here?</p>
<p>Also: his link seems to be broken. At least I can’t load it.</p>
<p>He purposely blacked out his personal statement along with his address and stuff like that. He already got into medical school, he is in his first semester.</p>
<p>Thanks ASMAJ that’s a real interesting link-surgeon in the making, but I tried to open the AMCAS application link, but there was nothing there (zero bytes). Were you able to open it and see anything? I added this surgeon in the making guy to my bookmarks, so I can read it all someday when I have more time.</p>
<p>I think its because SDN is shutting down theirs blogs. I saved it on my computer when I saw it last year. If you want, you can PM me your email and I can send it to you. Here is his blog new url: <a href=“http://missionarydoc.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/[/url]”>http://missionarydoc.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/</a> </p>
<p>Here are some other ones you might like: <a href=“http://cutonthedottedline.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/[/url]”>http://cutonthedottedline.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/</a> (intern in surgery) and <a href=“http://6yearmed.blogspot.com/[/url]”>http://6yearmed.blogspot.com/</a> (4th yr med)</p>
<p>You can find the app on his new blog at: [Verified</a>!!! « Missionary Surgeon in the Making](<a href=“http://missionarydoc.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2006/07/13/verified/]Verified”>http://missionarydoc.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2006/07/13/verified/)</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. That didn’t look too, too bad. Of course the whole Zambia thing won’t be happening on my D’s app (sheesh).</p>
<p>I do have a question. Look at the first entry on classes. AP Gov’t? Taken at college? What gives? </p>
<p>I would also like to point out that his lowest grade was Volleyball. Ain’t that a B%$#$? LOL.</p>
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<p>Thats just how the AAMC verifiers count it, but Jaysson took it in high school.</p>
<p>Is that the only AP he took in high school?</p>
<p>IOW, will everyone get their high school grade in an AP class added in if the college accepts the class for credit (but not for grade)?</p>
<p>Dang. That would be helpful. LOL.</p>
<p>It’s officially included in AMCAS. Medical schools are free to consider it as they wish; most won’t go to the trouble of recalculating his GPA without them. He only receives grades in them if his school assigns him grades.</p>
<p>He only receives grades in them if his school assigns him grades.</p>
<p>If the college assigns him a grade? So when they accept credit but not grade, the course is listed but not added to the GPA. Does that make any sense? Why treat the AP courses differently based on what the UG does?</p>
<p>huh. D has a great many Community College courses that will be on her AAMC transcript with grades. I know they are added in, even if her UG won’t accept them (dual credit). </p>
<p>What would happen if her Community College transcript had her AP courses listed and they did put the grades down? And the UG listed the AP courses but no grades, just credits? What would AAMC add in?</p>
<p>And then, if that’s not hard enough - if God is all powerful can he make a rock so big that he himself can’t lift it? ;)</p>
<p>Basically, AMCAS is going to faithfully copy down any grades listed on a college transcript. If Oakdale gave somebody an A for an AP course, then AMCAS will credit that. If a community college gave somebody an A for an AP course, then AMCAS will credit that, too.</p>
<p>If it’s on a college transcript, AMCAS will record it.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how they’d handle overlapping courses.</p>
<p>I’m not either, and in my D’s case we are only talking hundreths of a point (why bother) but for some applicants this could seriously inflate their GPA. Granted, the reviewers aren’t idiots but if the first cull is just numbers, well…maybe it’s worth seeing if that CC transcript gets your AP scores and grades. ;)</p>
<p>I had this very situation happen to me. As a HSer, I took Stats over a summer at a CC. Of course, I reported it on my college apps, so it turns up on my “real” college transcript. I reported the Stats course to AMCAS under the CC, despite the fact that I was given credit for it on my college transcript, and AMCAS only recorded it once.</p>