Sep 6, 2026
One carries your application. The other decides where you end up. Registration for the second opens September 15, and it is a separate thing you have to go do.
Sep 2, 2026
Four per program, and the assignment is the part you cannot take back.
AMCAS accepts up to ten, one of those ten can quietly contain six, and none of them are holding up your application.
September 2 to September 23 is a gift. Most people waste it racing.
Aug 27, 2026
The full list medical schools evaluate, what each one actually means, and where it shows up in an application.
Am I behind? Does it look bad? Do I need to do something impressive? The AAMC's 2025 numbers, question by question.
The 17 competencies, the selection model, and the acceptance grid, straight from the AAMC's own pages.
The invisible weeks between hitting submit and your application reaching schools.
Five real changes, what each one means for you, and none of the rumor mill.
The rules this brief runs on, in writing, so you can hold us to them.