Reapplicant Carry-Over Rules: AMCAS, AACOMAS, TMDSAS

Reapplicant Carry-Over Rules: AMCAS, AACOMAS, TMDSAS

Your data carries over. Your essays and letters do not. In all four services we could check on November 7, 2026 (AACOMAS, CASPA, TMDSAS and ADEA AADSAS), the personal statement and the letters of evaluation have to be done again, and AACOMAS and CASPA make the copy of your old application a one-time choice that "cannot be undone."

The common worry is that a reapplication starts blank. The real risk runs the other way. Most of your old entries come back, written by the applicant you were a year ago, and you sign for every word again. This page puts the published rules side by side, flags the irreversible step, and says which rolled-over entries to rewrite. If you are still deciding whether to reapply this cycle, start with rejected from all medical schools: what now.

AAMC's AMCAS pages refused our automated fetch on November 7, 2026, so this page does not state AMCAS's carry-over rules. The AMCAS section below says what MD schools publish instead.

The carry-over table

Sources: AACOMAS reapply page (updated October 21, 2026), CASPA reapply page (updated October 7, 2026), TMDSAS reapplicants, TMDSAS Application History, ADEA re-applicants.

Three differences change what you do:

• High school carries over in ADEA AADSAS but not in AACOMAS or CASPA.
• Chronology of Activities is on TMDSAS's no-roll-over list, so you rebuild it; experience entries carry over in AACOMAS, CASPA and ADEA AADSAS.
• School choices are gone everywhere. ADEA says so outright: "Previous school designations" do not transfer.

None of the four services we checked had posted its next-cycle dates except ADEA AADSAS. AACOMAS, CASPA and TMDSAS showed only 2026-2027 or Entry Year 2027 dates that day.

AACOMAS and CASPA: the copy you cannot undo

Both Liaison services use the same reapplicant workflow, and both warn you twice. From the AACOMAS page:

"Click the checkbox to confirm that you want to copy your previous application. After you click Confirm , you cannot start over with a new, blank application."

"Select the information you want to carry over. Unselected items will not carry over and cannot be recovered, so ensure your selections are complete before proceeding"

Two more rules follow from the copy. Your old coursework is fixed: "Coursework that was verified in the previous cycle will be locked in the current cycle." And you are visible as a reapplicant: "Note that your programs may be able to see that you are a re-applicant." You also keep the same CAS ID. CASPA adds the duty that goes with the convenience: "Once your application is successfully copied, you must review every copied section and confirm the data is accurate."

Our view: copy every section the workflow offers, then rewrite inside the new application. CASPA says of copied data, "You can make updates if necessary." An unselected entry cannot be recovered. The countercase: the fresh-start option exists for a reason. If you last applied more than three cycles ago, the data is gone anyway, and if you want a blank application, choose the fresh-start option before you confirm a copy, because "The data from your previous application cycle is wiped clean."

TMDSAS: what you rebuild

TMDSAS rolls over most entries "for your review", and you "MUST still go to each section, review the information displayed, make corrections where necessary, and then SAVE the page." The sections it does not roll over include the two that carry your argument, Essays and Letters of Evaluation, plus the Chronology of Activities. You also "re-send your transcripts, letters of evaluation and pay a new application fee." Your MCAT does not need re-releasing if you released it before.

The trap is in Application History. If you were a reapplicant and answer the first question wrong, TMDSAS closes the reapplicant essay to you:

"If you previously applied to a TMDSAS school (and your application was transmitted) but you select 'No' -- you will NOT be able to access the supplemental questions and reapplicant essay."

TMDSAS defines a reapplicant as anyone whose application "was transmitted to any TMDSAS medical, dental, or veterinary school." Answer YES if that is you. The TMDSAS reapplicant essay strategy covers what to write, and the Texas rejection guide gives a month-by-month restart.

ADEA AADSAS: print before May 10, 2027

ADEA's page gives one date to act on: "It is recommended that reapplicants print their ADEA AADSAS application for reference by May 10, 2027." The next application opens the following day. Your experiences, achievements, DAT and coursework transfer; your personal statement, letters and school list do not, and "Letters of Evaluation must be newly uploaded each cycle." The dental reapplicant personal statement guide covers the rewrite, and rejected from dental school covers the DAT question.

AMCAS: what MD schools say, and what we could not check

AAMC's AMCAS Applicant Guide has a reapplicant chapter, but it refused our automated fetch on November 7, 2026. Read that chapter yourself before you start the application. MD school pages we could load say this much:

• The University of Tennessee Health Science Center says a reapplicant "must initiate a new application through AMCAS and complete the application process", that "it is recommended that you update your AMCAS personal statement", and that you "must update your pre-professional evaluation and letters of recommendation through AMCAS" (UTHSC).
• Wisconsin says "all letters must be submitted via AMCAS" and "Letters from previous admissions cycles will not be accessible to us unless they are resubmitted" (UW SMPH).

So for MD schools, the letters rule matches the other services: plan to send letters again. The letters guide for reapplicants covers which to replace.

Your activities entries as a reapplicant

A copied experience entry is accurate about last year and silent about this one. Rewrite in this order:

1. Entries tied to your diagnosed weakness. If clinical exposure was thin, the clinical entries carry the new evidence. Update dates and hours first.
2. New entries since you applied. Add them; do not fold them into an old entry.
3. Reflections that no longer describe you. If an entry says what you hoped to learn and you now know, say what you learned.
4. Everything else. Check dates, hours and contacts, then leave it.

Constructed example: a copied entry, then rewritten

Constructed example, written by us, not a real applicant's entry. Context (invented): Anouk Almeida copied her AACOMAS application; her clinical exposure was the weak point.

Copied from last cycle (41 words):

Medical scribe, emergency department, 6 months. I document patient encounters for physicians in real time. I hope to learn how physicians think through uncertain presentations and how the team manages a busy shift. I want to understand how emergency medicine works.

Rewritten this cycle (54 words):

Medical scribe, emergency department, 18 months, now training new scribes. I document encounters in real time. Watching one physician explain a negative workup to a frightened patient changed how I talk to patients at intake: I now say what we are ruling out and why. I train new scribes on that same explanation step.

The first version describes a plan. The second reports what happened over a year and one behavior that changed, which is the change a reapplicant entry has to show.

Questions about reapplicant carry-over

Does my personal statement carry over when I reapply?

No, in all four services we checked. AACOMAS and ADEA AADSAS list the personal statement as not carried over, CASPA lists the personal essay, and TMDSAS does not roll over Essays.

Do letters of recommendation carry over?

No. Each service we checked requires letters again, and Wisconsin says previous-cycle letters "will not be accessible to us unless they are resubmitted."

Can I undo the AACOMAS or CASPA copy?

No. Once you confirm, "you cannot start over with a new, blank application", and unselected items "cannot be recovered."

Do I need to resend my MCAT to TMDSAS?

No. "If you previously released your MCAT score to TMDSAS, you do not need to re-release it to us." Applying to an SMP first? Georgetown's 'see AMCAS/AACOMAS' rule lets you reuse last year's application.

Get a free review of your personal statement

Every service makes you write the statement again, so write it for the applicant you are now. Get a free Quick Review of your personal statement against GradPilot's AMCAS personal statement rubric: it reads for an experience-grounded case for medicine and how your experiences changed your understanding or behavior. DO applicants can use the AACOMAS personal statement rubric, and Texas applicants the TMDSAS personal statement rubric.

More reapplicant guides:

• What to change in your essays when reapplying.
• PA school reapplicant personal statement examples for CASPA.
• The medical school essays hub.

Sources

Retrieved November 7, 2026, except where noted.

• AACOMAS, Use an Existing Account to Re-Apply (updated October 21, 2026): copy and no-copy lists, confirm step, locked coursework, three-cycle limits, CAS ID.
• CASPA, Use an Existing CASPA Account to Re-Apply (updated October 7, 2026): copy lists, review duty, updates.
• TMDSAS, Reapplicants (no year stated): rollover rules, transcripts, letters, fee, MCAT, printing.
• TMDSAS, Application History (no year stated): reapplicant question, non-rollover list, 10-year retention.
• ADEA, Re-Applicants: transfer lists, letters, May 10 and May 11, 2027.
• UTHSC College of Medicine, Reapplication (no year stated).
• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Reapplying to the MD Program (no year stated; captured November 7, 2026, and HTTP 403 to a second automated fetch the same day).
• AACOMAS, Application Cycle Dates; CASPA, Application Cycle Dates; TMDSAS, Deadlines: only 2026-2027 or Entry Year 2027 dates posted.
• Not retrieved: AAMC AMCAS Applicant Guide reapplicant chapter (HTTP 403 to our fetch on November 7, 2026). Not quoted.