The AAMC recommends that:
1. Each applicant be familiar
with, understand, and comply with the application, acceptance, and admission
procedures at each school to which the applicant has applied, as well with
as these Recommendations.
2. Each applicant provide accurate and truthful information in all aspects
of the application, acceptance, and admission processes for each school
to which the applicant has applied.
3. Each applicant submit all application documents (e.g., primary and
secondary application forms, transcript[s], letters of evaluation/recommendation,
fees) to each school in a timely manner and no later than the school's published
deadline date.
4. Each applicant promptly
notify all relevant medical school application services and all medical schools
with independent application processes of any change, permanent or temporary,
in contact information (e.g., mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address).
5. Any applicant who will be unavailable for an extended period of time
(e.g., during foreign travel, vacation, holidays) during the application/admission
process:
a. Provide instructions regarding
his or her application and the authority to respond to offers of acceptance
to a parent or other responsible individual in the applicant's absence.
b. Inform all schools at which
the applicant remains under consideration of this individual's name and contact
information.
6. Each applicant respond
promptly to a school's invitation for interview. Any applicant who cannot
appear for a previously scheduled interview should notify the school immediately
of the cancellation of the appointment in the manner requested by the school.
7. Each applicant in need
of financial aid initiate, as early as possible, the steps necessary to determine
eligibility, including the early filing of appropriate need analysis forms
and the encouragement of parents, when necessary, to file required income
tax forms.
8. In fairness to other applicants,
when an applicant has made a decision, prior to May 15, not to attend a medical
school that has made an offer of acceptance, the applicant promptly withdraw
his or her application from that (those) other school(s) by written correspondence
delivered by regular or electronic methods.
9. By May 15 of the matriculation year (April 15 for schools whose first
day of class is on or before July 30), each applicant who has received an
offer of acceptance from more than one school choose the specific school at
which the applicant prefers to enroll and withdraw his or her application,
by written correspondence delivered by regular or electronic methods, from
all other schools from which acceptance offers have been received.
10. Immediately upon enrollment
in, or initiation of an orientation program immediately prior to enrollment
at, a U.S. or Canadian school, each applicant withdraw his or her application
from consideration at all other schools at which he or she remains under consideration.
