Important Reminders for Students Completing the AMCAS

Completing the AMCAS Application: Quick Guide for Applicants to Allopathic Medical Schools in 2012-2013

Releasing Information to Advisers (pg 20-21 of AMCAS Instruction Manual)
If you wish to authorize AMCAS to release application information about your application to the school-designated advisor(s) at NYU, indicate "Yes." The school-designated advisor(s) have met AMCAS-established requirements and are bound by confidentially. Information transferred includes your personal/demographic information, MCAT scores, GPAs, the names and types of your recommenders, the names of any other schools you have attended, the medical schools to which you have applied and what action those schools have taken, and the status of your application with AMCAS. Releasing this information will help your health professions adviser counsel future applicants and evaluate programs.

Releasing Your Official Transcript (pg 22 of AMCAS Instruction Manual)
Problems with transcripts are the number one cause of processing delays and missed application deadlines. Please review this section of the Instruction Manual carefully. The Transcript 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. We advise students to wait until all Spring 2012 grades have been recorded on their transcript before submitting the Transcript Request Forms to NYU's Registrar.

Entering Coursework (pg 36-55 of AMCAS Instruction Manual)
When entering coursework, you must include information and corresponding grades for every course in which you have ever enrolled at any U.S., U.S. Territorial, or Canadian post-secondary institution, regardless of whether credit was earned.

Types of Letters (pg 59 of AMCAS Instruction Manual)
The type of letter that NYU creates is called a "Committee Letter." This type of letter is authored by a prehealth committee or prehealth advisor and intended to represent your institution’s evaluation of you. Whenever an application asks for the name of the primary author, you will use Dr. Brian C. Paquette. Postbaccaulaureate students will use Stacey Satchell, M.S. Ed., M.A. as the primary author. The authors of the individual letters of recommendation submitted with your NYU Committee Letter should not be listed as separate entries. Please refer to website our for additional instructions and details.