**Application Timeline Annotated (link)**

AMCAS Application Notes

It takes about 4 – 8 weeks to be verified.

Identity Information

MCAT/AMCAS ID numbers and ID numbers from institutions (if you have it, your GRE ID)

AMCAS is still collecting information on race and ethnicity, but many admissions are blinded to it.  You should still enter it and you can reference it in your essays.

Language(s)

If you come from a family that speaks more than one language (or if you are just multilingual), make sure you enter that.  It means you can reach a larger patient base.

You might speak one language to your parent/guardian and another to your siblings or friends, so make sure to keep this in mind.

Childhood information

If you lived in many places, maybe select the one you lived longest.

Is your community medically underserved? Can look it up on Census data to see if it’s medically underserved.

Want to make sure you give as much information about your background as possible as it’s all considered.  This is also the first time you present yourself to med school.  If something is missing, they have an incomplete picture.

Household income: focus on your childhood, not your family’s income now.

Number in household: If you had additional relatives in your household (uncles, aunts, grandparents) include them too.

Contribution to family: If you worked for your family when you were growing up, enter yes.

Applications contribution: if you worked during college to help support yourself, that counts as well

Other impactful experiences: It’s about 1 page in length (1325 characters).  This is an opportunity to describe situations that were really impactful for you.  Explain schooling background or economic circumstances that you think affected your college attendance and your career path, this is where you would talk about that.  If you were the first in your family to go to college, you can include that if you think it’s relevant.  If there’s something else that happened that really affected you as a person.  Don’t retraumatize yourself.  Only share what you are comfortable talking about in an interview.

Parent and Guardians: provide your parent/guardian education level

SES Disadvantaged: this section will autofill this based on your college funding and parent education.  It’s not always correct.  Don’t worry about that score too much, as the specific information in other sections is more important.