Your application starts years before you apply.
Every prerequisite, every hour and every letter, tracked as you go against what the medical schools on your list actually require. Then the cycle opens and it is already filled in, with a clock running on each secondary so the week you lose is never the week that cost you a seat.
$11.99 a month, or $239.99 once for five years. No free tier and no trial, whether you are a sophomore or mid-cycle.
What is different here
Built for AMCAS, AACOMAS and TMDSAS, not adapted to it.
Secondaries arrive in a burst and are read in the order they come back, so the days between receiving one and returning it are the part of this that is actually in your hands.
Before the cycle
Four years of small decisions, none of them written down anywhere.
Which course cleared which requirement. How many hours that summer actually came to. Who agreed to write for you. By the time it is asked for, most of it is a reconstruction, and reconstructions are where the mistakes live.
Prerequisites
Not every school wants the same courses.
Pick your medical schools and Cyclios collapses their published requirements into one list: the strictest version of each subject, with the school that asks for it named. Clear that list and you have cleared all of them.
- Each line shows credits, whether a lab is required, and which schools ask
- Read off each school's own page, never a guess or an average
- A school with nothing published says so, instead of borrowing someone else's list
Coursework
The two GPAs schools actually screen on.
AMCAS splits every course into BCPM and everything else, and screens on the science GPA separately. A strong cumulative can hide a weak one. Both are computed as you enter grades, term by term.
- BCPM, cumulative and all-other, on AMCAS's own conversion
- What next term has to average to reach the number you want
- Import a transcript, or type it in once and stop recalculating it
Hours
Hours somebody else will vouch for.
Log them while you remember them. Clinical, shadowing, research and volunteering, kept apart because committees read them apart. When it matters, ask a supervisor to confirm the total. They sign once, and their figure is kept apart from yours rather than quietly replacing it.
- Running totals against what programmes actually publish, where they publish one
- A supervisor's attestation is append-only and never edited after signing
- Everything lands pre-written in the AMCAS, activities section when you apply
Then the cycle
It opens already filled in.
The coursework, hours and letters you have been keeping are the application. What changes is that everything is suddenly on a deadline, and rolling admissions means the deadline is not the date on the website. It is how fast you turn things around.
The clock
It tells you what is late, not what exists.
Forward a secondary invitation to your Cyclios address and it reads the school, the dates and the ask, then starts the countdown. Schools rarely state the two-week norm, but they are all counting.
- A day counter per school, against the two-week norm
- Deadlines carry their source, never a guessed date
- A school is done when its essays are in, not when you say so
The essay bank
The same question, a dozen times over.
Prompts repeat. Cyclios groups every school's questions into the type they actually are, so you write one answer per question and adapt it, starting from your own words rather than an empty box.
- Every version of every draft, kept forever
- Search the paragraph you cut in June and forgot
- Each school's real limit, in characters or words, or nothing when nothing is published
Why you can trust it with this
Your application is the most personal thing you own.
Encrypted before it lands
Essays, grades, hours and forwarded mail are encrypted on our side before they reach the database, and are readable only by you.
Never used to train anything
Your work is not training data, is never sold, and is deleted within days of you closing the account.
Never invents a deadline
Every date carries where it came from. A missing date says so rather than showing you a plausible guess.
The requirement lists are public. Every medical school has a page with its prerequisites and the admissions page they were read from, so you can check our reading against the source before you trust it.
The best time to start was your first semester.
The second best is now. Setting it up takes about three minutes, and it is the same account whether you apply next year or in three.
From $11.99 a month. The five-year plan is one payment of $239.99 and never renews.
238 medical schools tracked, 163 MD and 75 DO.