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Application Process
Health Professions Applicant Handbook
VIII. THE TIMELINE FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL APPLICANTS
This timeline is designed for students who are
completing required courses by the spring of 2009. It
should also be used as a checklist to insure you are
taking all the necessary steps to prepare a strong
application.
| February '09 |
- Obtain a copy of The HPRC Information
Packet
- Complete the HPRC Registration Form and
submit to Dowling Student Service Desk
- Decide which individuals you will ask
for letters of recommendation and approach
those people, giving them the HPRC form
- Begin/continue studying for the MCAT
and register for the date of choice
- Begin drafting your personal statement
(essay)
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| March |
- Contact a member of the HPRC to be your
representative/interviewer
- Continue on all other February items
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| April |
- 1st - deadline to register with the HPRC
- Possibly sit for an April MCAT
- Choose a date for DATs and register
- HPRC begins interviewing
- 15th - deadline to register with HPRC
- Prepare a quality draft of your essay
and a resume for your HPRC interview
- Continue all from February
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| May |
- 1st - deadline to choose an HPRC rep
- 1st - deadline for all individual
letters to arrive into your HPRC file
- Begin to complete the AMCAS and/or
AACOMAS
- Possibly sit for a May MCAT
- Schedule an interview date with your
HPRC representative
- Begin to research medical schools
- Discuss your candidacy and your essay
with Carol
- Complete a transcript request form at
the Dowling Student Service Desk and specify
that the transcript should include spring
semester grades (include the official form
from AMCAS and AACOMAS as well - see
website).
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| June |
- 1st - first date possible to submit
AMCAS
- Possibly sit for a June MCAT
- Transcripts are
ready to be mailed by the registrar
mid-month
- Continue all from May that has not been
completed
- Receive MCAT scores and consult with
Carol or Shirley on your list of schools
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| July |
- Plan on submitting AMCAS/AACOMAS no
later than this month
- Begin to complete any non-AMCAS
applications
- When your status check shows that AMCAS/AACOMAS
has transmitted your application, submit
your request to have letters mailed to
Dowling Hall Student Desk for the HPRC staff
assistant
- Check on all pieces of the application
through the on-line status check process
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| August |
- 1st - Early Decision application
deadline
- Your status check should show
“transmitted” by this point
- Begin to receive “secondary”
applications from schools
- Sit for DATs no later than this month
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| September |
- 15th - last date for HPRC interview
- Receive completion cards from individual
schools
- Follow up to be sure all materials have
arrived at schools if you do not receive
acknowledgements
- Receive interview handout and prepare
for interviews
- Receive interview invitations now
through April 2009
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| October |
- 15th - first date that regular
admissions acceptances can be offered
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| January 2010 |
- Check in with Carol or Shirley on your status,
whether you have been interviewed, etc.
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This modification applies to students who will not
complete coursework until the summer and therefore will
take August MCATs. Your timeline will vary somewhat but
not entirely from what is outlined above.
| MCAT |
- Study over the May-August period
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| AMCAS |
- Begin working on it as discussed above
- Plan on submitting the AMCAS immediately
upon receipt of summer grades
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| HPRC |
- You should try to follow the timeline
above, interviewing with your representative
by May or June
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Therefore it is more likely that the following will
occur:
| August/ September |
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| October |
- Receipt of AMCAS “secondary”
applications - turn around ASAP
- Receipt of completion cards late in the
month
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| November |
- Earliest possible invitations for
interviews for available dates, probably not
before December
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This section is for students who do complete
coursework in the spring but do not take MCAT until
August.
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- Follow all the dates/deadlines for the
April test takers other than the test
itself. You should submit all materials to
medical schools prior to early October when
your scores will reach them
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