The Here and Now

Okay, long boring explanations of what one has to go through accomplished, now actual details on what schools I applied to, when, and how many I've heard back from so far. Actually, this has the potential to be quite boring also, but oh well.

The earliest you can start working on the AMCAS is May 1st, and the earliest you can actually submit it is June 1st. I wish I'd started filling it out May 1st, but I didn't, and ended up submitting it on June 6th, because of how much longer than expected it took for me. Still, June 6th is pretty good considering the first application deadline I know of is about October 15th, and AMCAS received my transcript on the 8th, and processing was complete by the 21st. Fifteen days of processing is awesome and a huge benefit of applying super early.

The 14 schools to which that application was made available are:

Albany Medical College - Albany, NY

Dartmouth Medical School - Hanover, NH

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 

Keck School of Medicine - University of Southern California 

Loma Linda University School of Medicine - Loma Linda, CA

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Oregon Health and Science University 

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science - Chicago, IL

University of California San Diego 

University of California San Francisco 

University of California, Davis School of Medicine 

University of California, Irvine- College/Medicine 

University of Washington School of Medicine - Spokane, WA

Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine - Dayton, OH

And, so far, I have received secondaries from these schools:

Albany Medical College - Everyone who applies gets a secondary

Dartmouth Medical School - We all get secondaries

Loma Linda - Everyone gets secondaries...

Rosalind Franklin - Everyone gets a secondary

UC Davis - They screen their applicants! Which means they saw my AMCAS and wanted more info from me. Hooray! Due July 22nd. AKA Saturday. Ahh!

Wright State University - All applicants get a secondary.

So really the only impressive part so far is the secondary request from UC Davis. But hopefully I will get more impressive as time goes on!

And from here on, I will update as I receive news. Bring it on, med schools.


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