Harvardocs-medschool-applicants-list April 2017

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by Premedical College

Dear Applicants, Welcome to the OCS Medical School Applicant list serve for the 2018 cycle! If you applied for the 2017 cycle and are matriculating this summer, we send along our warm congratulations. You will likely want to unsubscribe from this list serve, since we are now moving on to information relevant for the next cycle. 1) AMCAS dates. AMCAS opens on May 2. At that time you can begin creating your application. AMCAS opens for submission on June 1. You should plan to submit your application in the first two weeks of June. It is extremely important that you submit your application in this time frame. June 30th is the first day that verified AMCAS applications are sent to medical schools, so most of your secondary applications will come in July. 2) Secondary applications. Some secondary applications are not sent to you, but rather you are required to go on the web portal for that school and retrieve them. Once you have submitted your AMCAS and have a firm list of schools, carefully check all the school websites to be sure you are clear about their policies for secondary applications. 3) Spam filters. Check your spam filter every day of the summer and through the application year to be sure that important communication from medical schools is not getting stuck there. 4) Completing the AMCAS workshop. Plan to come to this workshop if you possibly can. This is a fact-filled session on the myriad details of filling out the AMCAS application. * Tuesday, April 25, 7-8:30pm (Science Center Hall D) * Please RSVP to attend<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__harvard.us8.list-2Dmana…> With all best wishes, Ellen, Oona, and Emiko Premedical and Health Careers Advising http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health Office of Career Services<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 54 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Ph.: 617.495.2595 [Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.facebook.com/OCSHarvard>[Description: cid:image002.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://twitter.com/HarvardOCS>[Description: cid:image003.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://ocsharvard.tumblr.com/>[Description: cid:image004.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/> tel: 617.495.2595

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Welcome 2018 Applicants!

by Williams, Ellen Kathleen

Dear 2018 Applicants, Welcome to the Harvard OCS Medical School Applicant list serve! Over the next year, we will be posting a great deal of information related to the upcoming 2018 medical school application cycle. Please spread the word about this list serve to any fellow Harvard students and alumni who are applying this year. 1) OCS website. Please take some time to look at the OCS premed website. You will find a great deal of guidance there regarding the application cycle including information from our workshops for applicants. For example, you will find advice there about the overall application process<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/applying-to-medical-school>, writing your personal statement<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/personal-statement>, the AMCAS application<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/amcas>, letters of recommendation<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/letters-recommendation>, a list of the requirements<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/premed-academic-requirements> for individual medical schools, and a list detailing which schools accept out-of-state and international<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/premed-academic-requirements> applicants. 2) AAMC.org<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/applying-medica…>. This is also a terrific resource for the application process and includes the number for the help line for AMCAS questions. (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. ET Closed Wednesday, 3-5 p.m. ET, 202-828-0600) 3) Timing. If you are unsure if this is your year to apply, please make an appointment with an OCS premed adviser to discuss this. If you do not have clinical experience or if you have a lower BCPM (biology, chemistry, physics, math) GPA or MCAT score, those can be reasons to put off the application in order to strengthen your standing as an applicant. 4) MCAT timing. If you are not planning to take the MCAT by the end of May, then you may do better to hold off on your application for another year. There are successful candidates every year who take the exam for the first time in June while they are applying. However, this makes it hard to retake the exam, can prolong the process of choosing schools, and can delay the application process. Nonetheless, if you are not doing well on the practice exams, it is better to delay the test than to do poorly. Please come talk to us you are unclear about this. 5) AMCAS dates. The AMCAS application will open on May 2, for applicants to begin working on the application. June 1 is the first day it can be submitted. June 30 is the first day any information will be sent to medical schools. We strongly recommend that all applicants submit the primary application by June 15 at the latest. 6) Personal Statement. Be sure you are leaving adequate time to work through multiple drafts of your personal statement with your House tutor. We recommend that you try to have a fairly polished draft done by the end of April. 7) School Selection. A school list that is not a good fit with your numbers and your experiences can be the difference between getting in and not getting in. Make sure you have reviewed your school list with your House tutors and feel free to make an appointment at OCS to review your list with Oona, Emiko, or Ellen. The main resources for trying to think this through are the medical school websites, the list of schools on the OCS website regarding out-of-state and international<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/premed-academic-requirements> applicants, the OCS Medical School Admissions Data Book (stop by OCS to get one if you do not have one already), and the MSAR<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/applying-medica…> which you should all buy for $27 (free if you qualify for the AAMC Fee Assistance Program). 8) Final workshops and visits of the year. We have one more application-related workshop (AMCAS Application, Science Center Hall D, Tuesday, April 25, 7-8:30 pm) and one more medical school visit (Washington University School of Medicine, OCS, Thursday, April 13, 4-5 pm) this spring. In the fall, there will be interview workshops and more medical school visits. Good luck with the application process. Stay in close touch with your tutors throughout the process. We are here to help you as well. With all best wishes, Ellen, Oona, and Emiko Ellen K. Williams, MD, EdM Premedical and Health Careers Advising ellenwilliams(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:ellenwilliams@fas.harvard.edu> 617-495-2595 Office of Career Services<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 54 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 [cid:image001.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.facebook.com/OCSHarvard>[cid:image002.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://twitter.com/HarvardOCS>[cid:image003.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://ocsharvard.tumblr.com/>[cid:image004.jpg@01CD8445.F53D2F50]<http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/> http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health

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Home stretch and signing off for the 2017 cycle—2017 cycle applicants only

by Premedical College

Dear Applicants, Congratulations to those of you who have been accepted to medical school. We know it has been a long haul. We have all enjoyed working with you and wish you the best of luck in your medical careers. This is the last post that we will make regarding the 2017 cycle, so for those of you headed to medical school this summer, we suggest that you unsubscribe from this newsletter since from here on, our posts will be related to the 2018 cycle. Here are a few last minute things we want you to know. 1) April 30th deadline. As of April 30th, you must be holding an acceptance to only one school. You may remain on other wait lists. This is a serious deadline. The schools that have accepted you will be notified if you are holding multiple offers. Schools can and do rescind acceptances. Do not let that happen to you. Full details regarding these acceptance protocols can be found at https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/article/applica… . 2) Wait lists. Many of you are holding spots on one or more wait lists. If you have an acceptance already, then neither OCS nor your House will be able to advocate for you at schools where you have been wait listed. However, we are happy to advise you about strategies. If you are holding wait list positions and have no acceptances, then definitely get in touch with both your House premed advisers and OCS to discuss your situation. You are allowed to stay on wait lists until you matriculate at another school. However, only remain on wait lists at schools that you would attend over the schools where you have already been accepted. 3) Letters of intent. People often use this term for a letter that they send to a school where they have been wait listed, saying that if admitted they will come. It may well be helpful to send such a letter to your first choice school if you are on a wait list. However, you need to be very sure that the one school is in fact your top choice since you are then honor bound to go there if admitted. At some point in the summer when you have had to make living arrangements, sign a lease, etc. then it is fair game to come off that list, but make sure you withdraw at the first moment that you know that you will no longer attend. 4) Financial Aid for medical school. Your best information regarding financial aid for medical school will come from the financial aid offices of the schools where you have been admitted. However, if you are confused about strategy or have some other general question about how this works, then we are certainly happy to talk with you about it. 5) Re-applications. In the unlikely event that you have not been admitted to any medical school this cycle, we urge you to make an appointment with one of us at OCS before submitting another AMCAS application so that we can work with you closely on the timing and content of your next application. 6) Last medical school visit of the year. If you are on the wait list at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis and hope to be accepted, please note that the Associate Dean of Admissions will be visiting Harvard on Thursday, April 13 from 4-5 pm at OCS. Best of luck to all of you and with all best wishes, Ellen, Oona, and Emiko

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