I want to preface this by saying I have searched this forum and read the AAMC Application guide and still have no found answers to my specific questions, so I would appreciate any help.
I'm filling out my coursework on the AAMC website to apply this cycle and I have three questions.
I'm filling out my coursework on the AAMC website to apply this cycle and I have three questions.
- The AAMC instructions and video guide say to enter the course title "exactly like on your official transcript." I can easily view my Unofficial transcript on my school website, but there's no way for me to view what my official transcript looks like. I already requested and sent my official transcripts from my college to AAMC and AACOMAS, but I have still never been able to view them myself. Are they identical to unofficial transcripts but just more 'official' and verified?
- On my unofficial transcript that I'm using to enter my coursework, my course names are weird. Chem 1A is "GEN CHEM" and Chem 1B is "GENERAL CHEMISTRY". I don't know why one is abbreviated and one isn't, but should I type exactly this on my application portal? Also for example my WRIT 1 writing class was called "Approach to University Writing" but on my transcript, it's "APP TO UNIV WRIT". Should I still put the less intelligible one under the Course title tab on my application portal, even if in some cases (not this one) it doesn't make it clear what the course actually was?
- My transcript (at least the unofficial one I can see) doesn't state whether I was a freshman, sophomore etc. during the time I took each of my courses so I don't actually know. Should I just list Freshman for my first 35 units and then switch to Sophomore (I'm on the quarter system) even if that means changing my status from freshman to sophomore in the middle of a quarter? That seems strange and it says not to include more than one status to an academic term. If, including AP units, I have taken 33 units by the end of Winter quarter, do I list all 16 units I took in Spring quarter as freshman or sophomore?
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