VirtualEvals

Below is a list of Medical Schools participating in the AMCAS Letter Pilot for the 2009 application cycle. We have been working with AMCAS to ensure that there are minimal changes to how you use VE if you have an applicant to a pilot school.  Basically, AMCAS will access letters that are posted to VE for applicants to the pilot schools.  Through an automated process they will transmit those letters to the appropriate schools. 

If an applicant is applying to one or more of these schools:

• He/she should indicate in his/her AMCAS application that his/her letters will be in the form of a “committee letter/letter packet.”
• He/she should enter you (the advisor) or your designated representative as the “Primary Author/Contact.”
• If you are including letters from others in your packet, it is not necessary for the applicant to list those letter writers in the “Additional Authors” section of the AMCAS letters tab.
• After entering this information on the AMCAS application, the applicant will be provided with a printable form containing an AMCAS Letter ID. He/she should either provide you with the form or provide you with the Letter ID.
• You do not need to include the form with your PDF or to put the number physically on the PDF. We suggest that you retain the form or notification of the Letter ID in the applicant’s file in case any questions arise.
• You do need to attach the pilot school(s) to the applicant record just as you normally would.

• Finally, and importantly, it is necessary for you to enter the AMCAS Letter ID into VE in the edit screen of the applicant record. Please double check the entry to be sure it is correct. Failure to enter that ID correctly may delay the processing of the applicant’s application at the pilot school.

If an applicant is not applying to any of the pilot schools, he/she does not have to enter any letter information into the AMCAS application, will not have an AMCAS letter ID, and you don’t have to do anything different with the applicant record.

Medical Schools/programs participating in the AMCAS Letter Pilot for the 2009 Application Cycle

Baylor College of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Creighton University School of Medicine
East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Florida International University College of Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Meharry Medical College
Mercer University School of Medicine
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Temple University School of Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine MD/PhD program only (MD program uses TMDSAS)
University of Arizona College of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
University of Mississippi School of Medicine
University of South Florida College of Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University