What are primary and secondary/supplementary applications?
Your primary application to medical school (both MD & DO) will be completed online. The application services AMCAS for MD, AACOMAS for DO, and TMDSAS for schools in Texas will include biographic information, lists of your activities and awards, list of all the schools you have attended and all the college level courses you have taken, a personal statement about why you want to be a doctor, and a list of the schools to which you will apply. The applications “go live” in mid-May for AMCAS and early-May for AACOMAS. Generally you have about a month to work on the application before you can submit it. Your credit card will be charged once you hit the submit button. It is important to apply early, but it is equally important that your application be error-free. You need to edit very carefully. As part of your primary application, you will print a transcript request form for each school at which you have taken college level courses and turn that form in to the appropriate registrar’s offices
