If you came through the April 2007 Prehealth Committee and have submitted a Release Form to our office, please email us your AMCAS, AACOMAS or AADSAS central ID number. Many of you turned in Release Forms without these numbers. They are the central identifiers that are provided to you when you initiate and log into your professional health school application for MD, DO and DDS respectively.
Please send an email to Karen Barrera at barrera@buffalo.edu with your ID. All you need to do is provide your name, person number and application identifier number as referred to above.
If you HAVE NOT YET submitted your Release Forms, please be sure to provide this number on the form when you submit it to our offices.
Good Afternoon Everyone:
Effective next Wednesday (June 20, 2007) Virginia (Jinny) Majewski who manages the letters for the Prehealth Committee process will be out of the office until sometime in August.
In her absence, Ms. Karen Barrera will be your first contact for overseeing the process of collecting and sending out your packets to the various professional health schools to which you are applying. She will also oversee the VirtualEvals system for transmitting your letters electronically to those medical (allopathic and osteopathic) schools and optometry schools that accept them.
Karen’s full contact information is below.
Ms. Karen Barrera
109 Norton Hall
645-6010
barrera@buffalo.edu.
If Karen is not available, you may also contact:
Jenn Rosseland at 645-6019. Jenn is also in 109 Norton Hall. Her email is jmr1@buffalo.edu.
Week of June 18-22
There will no appointments or prehealth drop-ins available the week of June 18.
I will be out of the office and Dalene Aylward is currently on maternity leave.
Please feel free to contact Karen or Jenn about Prehealth Committee letter matters and feel free to set an appointment for the week of June 25 or plan to come by drop-in hours that week. Summer drop-in hours are Tuesday from 2:00-4:00, Wednesday from 10:30-11:30 and Thursday from 10:00-11:00.
Veterinary Medical College Application Service (VMCAS) Welcomes Applicants and Advisors to VMCAS 2008!
The VMCAS Web Application for 2008 matriculation is now available. Applicants can now create an account to receive their VMCAS ID. They can also begin to register their evaluators. Once an evaluator is registered, the evaluator will automatically receive an email with details on how to access the eLOR system.
The application deadline this year is midnight eastern time on Monday October 1st, 2007.
The VMCAS website contains complete details about the application process to colleges of veterinary medicine:
· Application instructions
· Application Tips
· Sample application
· Details on each member college, including prerequisites
· College Comparison Chart
· Instructions for the easy-to-use online letters of evaluation system (e-LOR)
Royal Veterinary College Joins VMCAS
The Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges is pleased to announce that The Royal Veterinary College University of London has become a member of AAVMC and VMCAS! This brings the VMCAS membership total to 31 institutions.
Reminder
Please be sure to direct any questions or concerns you receive regarding the application process to the VMCAS toll-free Student and Advisor Hotline at 1 877 862 2740 or to vmcas@aavmc.org. Hours of operation are from 9 AM – 5 PM eastern time, Monday – Friday with extended hours as we get closer to the October 1st deadline.
Osteopathic (DO) Medical Applications
Just a reminder that the central application service - AACOMAS - for applying to US osteopathic medicine schools (DO) is scheduled to open TODAY, June 4, 2007. As of 8:50 a.m. today, the site was not yet live.
Allopathic (MD) Medical School Applications
Tomorrow, June 5 is the first day that AMCAS reported that they will begin accepting applications for US MD schools. I will forward any updates on the Bulletin.
