Requests for deferred matriculation and admission are only available to accepted students. Accepted students who would like to apply for deferral must write to the Faculty Associate Dean for Admissions stating their reason for requesting deferral and their proposed plans for the duration of the deferral.
We cannot guarantee deferral requests will be granted. If approved, deferrals are typically granted for one year, though they are routinely renewed for students involved in multi-year fellowship programs.
The Committee on Admissions is generally supportive of proposals that provide for participation in intellectually rewarding opportunities and service programs during the time of deferral from HMS. As tuition and unit loan amounts usually rise each year, students should carefully consider the financial implications of deferring to a future year. Skip to main content. Continue with your volunteer, work, or research activities. Prepare for the MCAT — Register and choose from approximately 20 dates but should not take later than April of the year that you submit your medical school application.
Attend various medical school admissions and application workshops, pre-med. See the AAMC website for details. Continue to save money for the application process. Later MCAT scores will put you at a disadvantage in the admissions process. Begin to fill out the primary application. Order and collect official transcripts from ALL colleges and universities that you have attended.
Focus on finals or if alumni, continue to work, volunteer, etc. Register for the MCAT at least two months prior to planned test date. Take the MCAT in the spring if possible, but no later than early summer in order to have scores submitted to the schools early in the cycle. Begin working on primary applications. Complete supplemental secondary applications. Some will come within days of submitting the primary application, others will take months.
Return these to the schools within one to two weeks of receiving. Interviews begin as early as late July at a small number of schools. By late August, many schools are interviewing. For , some schools may continue to do online interviewing or offer both in-person and online options.
Note that some D. October-December Continue to interview at medical schools. Some MD schools notify applicants of acceptances October DO schools may notify applicants even earlier. Notifications continue until the class is full. January-April Some schools send additional interview invitations in early to mid-January. Overall, in the U. Here are some general parameters for the med school interview invitation timeline, but — again — these vary by school, and there is no standardized timeline for medical school interview invitations.
AMCAS begins transmitting applicant information to schools starting July 1st, at the earliest, at which point secondary applications are sent to those who have completed the primary application by this time. Schools using AMCAS then tend to start interviewing in September, as the earliest secondary applications are submitted and reviewed, with interviews continuing all the way through early December.
There is then a lull over the winter break, with interviews often resuming in January and February, with a few happening as late as early March.
The ultimate list of acceptances is generally not finalized until April 30th. Again, though, interviews run through the late summer and fall, with a pause over the winter break, with a few interviews resuming from early-to-mid-January.
Osteopathic programs using AACOMAS report the earliest interviews generally taking place in late-August, running through the fall, pausing in mid-to-late December, and then resuming from January to early-March. As the U. In the U. Now, multiply that by 50k to get a grasp of the scope of the task application reviewers face! The rolling admissions system in the U.
That is, in the U. If this is the case, then the school has reviewed your application and found it competitive enough to keep in the proverbial pile, but not competitive enough to offer an interview immediately. It is expected that applicants will be patient and wait for the process to unfold, so contacting the school can reflect poorly on your patience and ability to manage stress both of which are needed in the medical profession!
If, on the other hand, December arrives and you have submitted a secondary application, there are a couple of things you can do to try to make the case for your suitability for the program and profession.
First, if you have a supporter who is an alumnus of the program to which you are applying, or who is otherwise able to speak to your fit with the school, you can ask them to call the admissions Dean on your behalf. This could even be one of your letter-writers, particularly if they are scholars or part of the academic establishment. Having a person of stature reach out directly on your behalf speaks to your capability and character, which could encourage the school to give your application another look.
Another option is writing an update letter or letter of intent, which will be discussed at the end of this post. Again, refer to the end of this post for further discussion of how to strategize and move forward, if you find yourself anxious and waiting at this stage in the medical school interview invitation timeline. The good news is that this means much less uncertainty, which might result in less stress and turmoil.
In general, most of the interview invitations in Canada come out in January and February, with interviews taking place between February and April. Note that while many medical schools in Canada follow this general timeline, you must verify dates with individual schools, as there is some variation, particularly in Quebec medical schools and those in the Maritimes.
For example, Dalhousie generally has a late-July deadline for primary applications with interview invites often coming out in October , and Quebec schools vary widely in their application due dates.
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