Time Zones in United States. The Eastern Time Zone is also known as Eastern Standard Time (EST) falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its time offset is â5 hours (UTC/GMT -5) during standard time and â4 hours (UTC/GMT -4) during daylight saving time.
Dr. Eaton / June 16, 2014 at 12:59 pm. If you would like to begin medical school in fall 2016, then you should submit your AMCAS application in the summer of 2015, preferable early in the cycle. The first day to submit is in early June.
AMCAS Application. The AMCAS is the American Medical College Application Service, a centralized application service which is used by pre-medical students when applying to medical school. It lets a medical student create one application which is then sent to all of the medical schools to which they are applying.