Dear Current Medical School Applicants,
1) AMCAS submission-For those of you who are planning to apply for 2018, it is getting quite late to submit your primary AMCAS application if you have not already done so. If you are trying to decide whether this is the right year for you to apply, then please email premed(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:premed@fas.harvard.edu> and we can arrange a phone appointment.
2) Timing of Harvard letters-As long as you have gotten your information to your House by their deadlines, then your Harvard Committee letter with your letters of recommendations will be uploaded and sent to your medical schools by August 15. Medical schools are used to this date and our letters in fact go in sooner than many of the letters from our peer institutions. Many schools will begin reviewing your application before this date or will put it in a queue once they receive your secondary, so you still need to get your materials in as soon as you can.
Good luck with your secondary applications and remember to keep checking those spam folders.
With all best wishes and happy summer,
Ellen, Oona, and Emiko
Greetings Texas applicants,
Most of you likely know this, but we wanted to remind all of you that there are some TMDSAS schools where you have to take the initiative to fill out your secondary, rather than being invited to do so. Below is a quote from an email sent on behalf of TMDSAS last summer.
Unlike several AMCAS schools, most TMDSAS schools do not invite to complete the secondary. They are available for completion along with TMDSAS and it is expected applicants will submit the application as part of a completed file. This page will detail which schools have secondaries and which do not "invite" to complete (i.e. applicants should take the initiative to complete it): http://www.tmdsas.com/frwqAskedQ/15-SecondaryApps.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.tmdsas.com_frwqAske…>. Our page details what makes a file complete and eligible for review: http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/admissions/apply/index.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__medicine.tamhsc.edu_adm…>
Good luck with your applications.
With all best wishes,
Ellen, Oona, and Emiko