We get an email from AMCAS when they receive a transcript, correct? I do not trust my undergrad AT ALL. They just took 2 weeks to tell me that they had the wrong birthday on file for me and I will need to put in a new transcript request now that its been sorted out.
In general, you are supposed to get an email when your transcript is received and indexed - however, according to the representative I spoke with today, they have been having issues this past week where people were not getting the emails automatically. (This is something that was brought up at their weekly meeting). Either way, if you log in and check the status through your application, the status there for each transcript is correct. So if you haven't gotten an email but your application says a transcript was received, don't worry about the lack of email.
Btw, just as an FYI to anyone still waiting for their transcripts to be marked as received:
I had a lovely long conversation with the representative. Two out of my three transcripts were marked received ages ago but the third transcript, requested at the same time as the other two, was not marked yet. Since the login screen for AMCAS said as of this morning, the 17th, they were processing transcripts they received as of the 13th (and I had my transcript requested on the 4th and confirmed with that school that it was actually mailed out), I was a little worried and figured I'd call in (anyways, today marked the 10th business day so I figured I had been patient enough!).
The woman told me I could go ahead and request another transcript from that school (not so easy since of course, it's the one school I had to go to in person). She wasn't sure why they didn't receive it but told me if I was going to request it today, to call in early next week to see what was going on if they hadn't received the second one by then. So it seems as though they aren't too strict on having us wait the 10 business days each time.
I do suspect that there's a possibility that the school didn't include the transcript request form that I gave them (though I explicitly told them to- but they are not the, um, most savvy at that school). So today, when I put in the second request at that school, I wrote in three places to include it. I'm really hoping it goes through this time, I will be so sad if it's the only thing holding me back from submitting in early June!
The AMCAS woman told me something kind of crazy though. When I told her I wished I could just pick up the transcript and bring it in myself (which I knew I couldn't, it was just wishful thinking), she told me their policies are so strict that if one of the other floors in their building receives a transcript from the mailman by mistake and tries to walk the sealed piece of mail down to the correct floor, the verification department won't accept it - and, wouldn't notify the applicant either. Isn't that nuts?
My big takeaway lesson is that if you have been sitting and waiting on a transcript, it might very well be worth trying to send it again. The representative I spoke with told me it's not a problem if they receive a few transcripts from the same institution (as long as you use the same transcript request form of course).
What a frustrating process, no? So completely out of our control.
