I wasn't "complete" with 3 LORs when I applied on 15 September. Finally receive a 4th year LOR and assigned it, so now I'm "complete" for many programs.
Will these programs be notified of meeting the 3 LOR requirement now (if I've already been reviewed), or should I email/call the program coordinators at a couple of my top choices I haven't heard from yet?
Let's address this as well. Although we all (myself included) talk about applications being "complete", there's actually no such thing. Programs can set any combination of filters on discrete data that they want to. And then they can reset them again, and again, and again, and again. And you'll never know which programs set which filters when.
If your app doesn't fulfill whatever set of criteria the program chooses to filter on, it's not getting ignored, it effectively does not exist to that program. Clearly, those filters, whatever they are, are important to that program. Once your app does fulfill the filtered criteria (assuming it does), then your app is in that program's queue and they can choose to review it further, or not. Invite you for an interview, or not. Etc. Again, you'll have no idea why your app is/not reviewed or you are/not invited so there's no point in trying to read the tea leaves on this.
So if a program needed 3 LORs before your app was reviewed, it is now available for them to review. If it not, they've probably already reviewed it.
And FFS folks, it's just the end of the first week of the app process being open. Relax. If it gets to mid-October and you still haven't heard anything, go ahead and reach out. But relax for now.
