Applicant Email 5-09-09

Dear Applicants,

Reminder: Contact the Dowling Front Desk staff at 617-627-2000 or studentservices@aseTufts.edu to check on arrival of letters, materials and the name of your interviewer. Do not email the HPRC for this. Always use the email address hprc@ase.tufts.edu when providing information to us, such as the date of your interview.

Reminder: Carol and Shirley have appointments over the summer. To schedule, call 617-627-2000. Appointments can be done by phone or in person.

This email is mostly about transcripts. Read carefully and save. This is perhaps the biggest area for problems in the application process, often because applicants do not pay attention to what is required.

The requirements for the four major application services are listed below. But here are the generalizations:

1. you will need to send official transcripts from each college you attended;
2. official transcripts must go directly from the school’s registrar’s office, not from you;
3. transcripts generally need to be accompanied by a special form from the application service, so you must arrange for that form to get to each of the registrar’s offices.

AMCAS
One official transcript is required from each U.S., U.S. Territorial, or Canadian postsecondary institution at which you have attempted course work, regardless of whether credit was earned.

AMCAS will not accept student-issued transcripts or transcripts sent by an applicant.

The Transcript Requests section of the application allows you to create and print AMCAS Transcript Request forms*  to send to the registrars at schools from which AMCAS requires official transcripts in order to process your application. This section also allows you to request exceptions for transcripts that are not required by AMCAS.

Study Abroad:
You must provide a transcript for study abroad programs sponsored by a U.S. or Canadian institution. You MUST request a transcript exception for courses that appear on a foreign transcript only but not on any US transcript.

*You can access AMCAS now and complete the section to allow you to print out these forms, then put in requests at various registrar’s offices.

AACOMAS

You must request that the registrar of each U.S. institution you have attended submit one complete set of official transcripts directly to AACOMAS. Include all institutions in foreign countries and U.S. Territories and Possessions that are operated by U.S. institutions. If an official transcript is unavailable, a letter of explanation from that school is required.

AACOMAS will not accept student-issued transcripts or transcripts sent by an applicant.

The Colleges and Coursework section of the application includes the option to print transcript request forms.*  While not required, submitting this form with each transcript will expedite the processing of your application.
 

Study Abroad:
You must provide a transcript for study abroad programs sponsored by a U.S. or Canadian institution. Coursework taken at foreign institutions that does not appear on a U.S. or Canadian institution must be evaluated for U.S. equivalence by evaluation services designated by AACOMAS, and an official copy must be sent from the service directly to AACOMAS
Transcripts should be mailed to:

AACOMAS
5550 Friendship Blvd., Suite 310
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
301-968-4190

*You can access AACOMAS now and complete the section to allow you to print out these forms, then put in requests at various registrar’s offices.

AADSAS

Arrange for a sealed official transcript, accompanied by a Transcript Matching Form*  to be sent directly to the AADSAS Transcript Processing Department from every accredited U.S. and Canadian institution you have attended.

AADSAS will not accept student-issued transcripts or transcripts sent by an applicant.

Study Abroad:
You must provide a transcript for study abroad programs sponsored by a U.S. or Canadian institution. Coursework taken at foreign institutions that does not appear on a U.S. or Canadian institution must be evaluated for U.S. equivalence by evaluation services designated by AADSAS, and an official copy must be sent from the service directly to AADSAS.

*AADSAS will open in early June, and then you will be able to print these forms and provide them to registrar’s offices.

VMCAS
Official transcripts are to be sent directly to the colleges you apply to. Addresses are provided on the VMCAS application.

Regards,
Carol