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Hello Everyone,

I remember reading on a thread that there is a website or an account where professors can send letters of recommendation and then when you are ready to apply to dental school, you can send them from that website.

I was trying to find that website or something that offers the same service. (I am not sure if I want to apply this cycle but I would like to have the letters of recommendation just in case). I forgot what it was called and I was wondering if anyone knew of something like that.

Thanks!
 
Ok lets say you save your letters on this website and you use them next year.....is there anything else that dental schools require other than a letter. I know optometry schools send a bunch of questions and ask the letter writer to answer those + a write a letter. So do Dental schools require JUST the letter or its a combination of letter and questions?
 
Ok lets say you save your letters on this website and you use them next year.....is there anything else that dental schools require other than a letter. I know optometry schools send a bunch of questions and ask the letter writer to answer those + a write a letter. So do Dental schools require JUST the letter or its a combination of letter and questions?

I applied to 18 schools and none of them required such.

I know what your talking about... MSUCOM's (MSU osteopathic med school) LOR system is like that...
 
DentalWorks: I've been waitlisted this cycle and I'm gearing up for next cycle by preparing well in advance this time.
Now, I have an interfolio account, and I have a couple of letters stored there from 2010-2011 cycle.
My question for next cycle is: can we submit LORs to AADSAS from interfolio? I imagine that's the whole point of having Interfolio but I wonder how that works because AADSAS sends email request to faculty/dentists directly to upload their LORs.
So, using Interfolio, would the LORs only need to be uploaded once to Interfolio and then I can have Interfolio send them to AADSAS?

Thanks for your help!
 
Alright, say you've sent out the LOR request to your professors, they took thier time and submitted the letters. Now you have 4 letters in your interfolio account.

Next, when AADSAS opens up (you can't do it now) there is a section called "Evaluators (LOE Matching Forum)"... its this one:
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When you click on that section, it will allow you to have 4 LOR-matching forms requested (because AADSAS only allows a maximum of 4 LORs), here are the 4 matching-forms I requested (each one is for one of my writers
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In the picture above, you see that last column that says "Print LOE Matching Form"... Click on red circle under it and it will open a PDF of the matching form, don't print it, just save it electronically on your PC..... THEN, upload the 4 matching forms into your interfolio account like they are normal documents.

So now your interfolio account will have 8 documents total (the 4 from your writers and 4 matching forms)..... Now you request to have ALL 8 of them sent in 1 envelope to AADSAS.... The end

Hope this helps.


By the way, you will have to do the same thing with your college transcripts (Transcript-matching forms) but you don't use interfolio for that... You just pring a hard copy of the matching form and take it to your college and have the registrar office attach it with your official transcripts.
 
Thanks dentalWorks, that is very helpful!
So if I understand correctly, timewise, this would be the "next best" method to having Professors upload directly to AADSAS on "exactly June 1st" (since there would be some lag time in having Interfolio "mail" the LORs to AADSAS).
It sounds like it's advantageous when we already have letters stored in advance (from previous cycle or between now and June 1st) rather than having to chase them down after June 1st.

BTW, do you have an idea about how much additional time it takes for Interfolio to mail the LORs/Matching Forms to AADSAS vs Professors uploading directly into AADSAS?

My goal is to have a completed application package in AADSAS so schools will receive it in time for 1st round interviews.
 
Thanks dentalWorks, that is very helpful!
So if I understand correctly, timewise, this would be the "next best" method to having Professors upload directly to AADSAS on "exactly June 1st" (since there would be some lag time in having Interfolio "mail" the LORs to AADSAS).
It sounds like it's advantageous when we already have letters stored in advance (from previous cycle or between now and June 1st) rather than having to chase them down after June 1st.

BTW, do you have an idea about how much additional time it takes for Interfolio to mail the LORs/Matching Forms to AADSAS vs Professors uploading directly into AADSAS?

My goal is to have a completed application package in AADSAS so schools will receive it in time for 1st round interviews.

Well, even if you submit EVERYTHING on June 1st electronically (LORs and college transcripts)... its almost impossible to guanratee that you'll be in the 1st round of applications being sent out because..... AADSAS will naturally delay your application by 3-4 weeks (to verify all your grades vs the official transcripts)

As far as LORs go, sure, if you know your writers well enough (and trust them), I guess it is possible for all 4 of them to electronically upload the letters into AADSAS directly (without the need of interfolio)...... I liked my writers alot, but I also knew some of them were major procrastinators lol, I didn't trust them enough to do that so... I resorted to interfolio....

The other advantage of interfolio is... if you don't get in this cycle, you can still have the LORs to be used again next cycle.... Another thing, I personally want to keep those LORs for future, maybe if I decide to specialize after dental school, I could use some of them.... you never know.

Another thing to consider is, many undergrad universities will mail out your official transcripts to AADSAS (not many are doing this electronically as of yet), this will take anywhere from 3-7 days to arrive... so EVEN if you electronically submit your LORs on June 1st, AADSAS will still have to wait for the transcripts to arrive.
 
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The other advantage of interfolio is... if you don't get in this cycle, you can still have the LORs to be used again next cycle.... Another thing, I personally want to keep those LORs for future, maybe if I decide to specialize after dental school, I could use some of them.... you never know.

Another thing to consider is, many undergrad universities will mail out your official transcripts to AADSAS (not many are doing this electronically as of yet), this will take anywhere from 3-7 days to arrive... so EVEN if you electronically submit your LORs on June 1st, AADSAS will still have to wait for the transcripts to arrive.
Ah yes, that makes sense. Bottom line...Interfolio is more versatile.
Thanks again!
 
Alright, say you've sent out the LOR request to your professors, they took thier time and submitted the letters. Now you have 4 letters in your interfolio account.

Next, when AADSAS opens up (you can't do it now) there is a section called "Evaluators (LOE Matching Forum)"... its this one:
2z40adk.jpg


When you click on that section, it will allow you to have 4 LOR-matching forms requested (because AADSAS only allows a maximum of 4 LORs), here are the 4 matching-forms I requested (each one is for one of my writers
2hya2iq.jpg


In the picture above, you see that last column that says "Print LOE Matching Form"... Click on red circle under it and it will open a PDF of the matching form, don't print it, just save it electronically on your PC..... THEN, upload the 4 matching forms into your interfolio account like they are normal documents.

So now your interfolio account will have 8 documents total (the 4 from your writers and 4 matching forms)..... Now you request to have ALL 8 of them sent in 1 envelope to AADSAS.... The end

Hope this helps.


By the way, you will have to do the same thing with your college transcripts (Transcript-matching forms) but you don't use interfolio for that... You just pring a hard copy of the matching form and take it to your college and have the registrar office attach it with your official transcripts.

Wait, so say I have four letters in interfolio. When June first rolls around, do I ask interfolio to submit to AADSAS first, print out the matching forms, and then submit again? I'm confused.
 
Wait, so say I have four letters in interfolio. When June first rolls around, do I ask interfolio to submit to AADSAS first, print out the matching forms, and then submit again? I'm confused.

I didn't do it like that.... You send the LORs + matching forms together.

you don't print out the matching forms... you electronically upload them into interfolio... THEN after theyr uploaded, you request from interfolio to send all 8 documents (4 LORs + 4 matching forms) to AADSAS
 
hey Dentalworks, im trying to figure out the letter of recommendation/evaluation thing. I know you say you can save them in the interfolio.com website and use it for the next cycle (if you dont get into this cycle) but I thought ADEA requires a new set of letters each year? I remember reading this in their FAQs. Does interfolio.com store the letters no matter what (even for the next cycle.) Is it affiliated with ADEA?

In addition, if I wanted to get letters from my professors right now (but they gave me the letters in a sealed envelope) am I allowed to staple the matching form to the envelope and then put that into ANOTHER envelope and then mail that out? I know it sounds confusing but this would severely help me with making sure my letters are sent out on June 1st to ADEA. Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks.
 
hey Dentalworks, im trying to figure out the letter of recommendation/evaluation thing. I know you say you can save them in the interfolio.com website and use it for the next cycle (if you dont get into this cycle) but I thought ADEA requires a new set of letters each year? I remember reading this in their FAQs. Does interfolio.com store the letters no matter what (even for the next cycle.) Is it affiliated with ADEA?

I was never a re-applicant.... but I believe all that means is.... AADSAS will not save your LORs from previous cycle... you have to provide "new" ones (even if they are just a repeat of last year's).

Think interfolio like a Bank... but instead of holding money, it holds your documents. I subscribed for 5 years with interfolio, my LORs will stay in their system till my 5 years are up (by then I'll either renew or just close down the account).... I believe you can do 1-year subscription instead of 5.

In addition, if I wanted to get letters from my professors right now (but they gave me the letters in a sealed envelope) am I allowed to staple the matching form to the envelope and then put that into ANOTHER envelope and then mail that out? I know it sounds confusing but this would severely help me with making sure my letters are sent out on June 1st to ADEA. Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks.

I am not sure... I would guess you can do that since you aren't looking at the LOR... here, contact them, see what they say
http://www.interfolio.com/contact/
 
So Dentalworks, just to clarify (i've never heard bout Interfolio before.) I can have my professors submit LOE's via Interfolio and then I can keep those letters on file for lets say 5 years, so if I dont get in for the 2012 cycle, I will still be able to use the letters in Interfolio for the 2013 cycle?

I noticed your tutorial, so all I would have to do is have professors submit the letters into Interfolio and then I have to use the Matching Forms and i'm done? Also this way my professors can submit letters before June 1st and then on June 1st I can simply print out the matching forms and be done?
 
quick question.
So I am trying to use this service for my application this year. I know around June, professors are going to be very busy and it'd be best for me to use interfolio.

Just to be perfectly clear on the process.

I send my writers request using. This option: Confidential Letter of Recommendation
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Then I download LOR matching from AADSAS as Dental work has kindly showed us.
Then I upload it to interfolio using this option: AADSAS LOR Form
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Then I request interfolio to send all my letters and matching form I uploaded.

Would it be wise to request interfolio to send out the letter few days in advance like May 25 to account for time it takes to get there?

appreciate your help.
 
quick question.
So I am trying to use this service for my application this year. I know around June, professors are going to be very busy and it'd be best for me to use interfolio.

Just to be perfectly clear on the process.

I send my writers request using. This option: Confidential Letter of Recommendation
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Yes
Then I download LOR matching from AADSAS as Dental work has kindly showed us.
Then I upload it to interfolio using this option: AADSAS LOR Form
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Then I request interfolio to send all my letters and matching form I uploaded.
Yes

Would it be wise to request interfolio to send out the letter few days in advance like May 25 to account for time it takes to get there?
No you can't do that. Because when you direct interfolio to send out your documents, you have to FIRST SELECT all the needed documents (in this case all the LORs and their Matching-forms). On May 25th, you will not have the matching-forms uploaded into interfolio.
 
So Dentalworks, just to clarify (i've never heard bout Interfolio before.) I can have my professors submit LOE's via Interfolio and then I can keep those letters on file for lets say 5 years, so if I dont get in for the 2012 cycle, I will still be able to use the letters in Interfolio for the 2013 cycle?

I noticed your tutorial, so all I would have to do is have professors submit the letters into Interfolio and then I have to use the Matching Forms and i'm done? Also this way my professors can submit letters before June 1st and then on June 1st I can simply print out the matching forms and be done?
 
So Dentalworks, just to clarify (i've never heard bout Interfolio before.) I can have my professors submit LOE's via Interfolio and then I can keep those letters on file for lets say 5 years, so if I dont get in for the 2012 cycle, I will still be able to use the letters in Interfolio for the 2013 cycle?
yes

I noticed your tutorial, so all I would have to do is have professors submit the letters into Interfolio and then I have to use the Matching Forms and i'm done? Also this way my professors can submit letters before June 1st and then on June 1st I can simply print out the matching forms and be done?
yes and yes. I was collecting LORs from like 2 years before applying. I had like 7 on file.

Just remember one thing folks, there are alot of schools that offer a free-service document bank (very much like interfolio) and its free. Check to make sure your school has such system before paying for an interfolio account.
 
awesome, last question: can I use interfolio for 3 of my letters and uses the ADEA mail in service for the 4th letter (Because my dentist wants to mail it in its easier for her then going through the interfolio process) ?
 
awesome, last question: can I use interfolio for 3 of my letters and uses the ADEA mail in service for the 4th letter (Because my dentist wants to mail it in its easier for her then going through the interfolio process) ?

sure... I don't see why not
 
dentalworks, do I need to tell my professors to do the digital signature or is it fine w/o the digital signature?
 
Does the AADSAS LOR have any specific questions, that might not be found on the "Confidential Letter" option for interfolio? Does it request all the necessary information that an AADSAS LOR matching form would have?
 
Does the AADSAS LOR have any specific questions, that might not be found on the "Confidential Letter" option for interfolio? Does it request all the necessary information that an AADSAS LOR matching form would have?

Here are all the AADSAS directions for the LOR matching forms:



Evaluators

You may make revisions to this section any time during the application process. After February 15, 2011 submit all changes directly to your designated dental schools.
Applicants may submit a maximum of four individual Letters of Evaluation or one Committee Letter/Report plus the option of one additional individual letter.
Prior to providing names in the Evaluators Section of the ADEA AADSAS Application, applicants should ask individuals if they are willing to serve as evaluators. If so, ask each evaluator if he or she wishes to provide the Letter of Evaluation to ADEA AADSAS electronically or prefers to provide a paper letter that is mailed to ADEA AADSAS. If the evaluator is sending a letter electronically, ADEA AADSAS needs the evaluator’s email address so ADEA AADSAS can send a message to the evaluator that indicates the process for electronic submission.
In the "Evaluators" Section of the ADEA AADSAS Application, the applicant:

  • indicates the individuals who will provide LOEs on his or her behalf
  • indicates which format each evaluator will use, electronic or paper
  • checks the appropriate box to indicate if the LOE is a Committee Letter/Report
If the evaluator prefers to submit an LOE electronically:

  • Applicant provides the evaluator’s email address
  • As soon as the evaluator’s name and email address are provided, the evaluator receives an email from ADEA AADSAS directing him or her to the ADEA AADSAS Evaluators Portal
  • The first time an evaluator enters the Evaluators Portal, the evaluator is asked to provide contact information
  • The evaluator follows simple step-by-step instructions for submitting the LOE; ADEA AADSAS can accept electronic LOEs in these formats: Microsoft Word (.doc), Portable Document Format (.pdf)
If the evaluator prefers to submit a paper LOE:

  • The applicant is prompted to print an LOE Matching Form that includes a special bar code
  • The applicant provides the LOE Matching Form to the evaluator, who attaches the form to his or her LOE and mails it to ADEA AADSAS at the address provided on the LOE Matching Form
How to Print the Letters of Evaluation Matching Form

  • Log in to your ADEA AADSAS application
  • Select Evaluators (LOE Matching Form) from the Application Checklist
  • Click “Add New Entry," select “Paper,” and enter all information for the evaluator who will submit a paper LOE (remember the “Email Address” field must be blank when adding a paper evaluation); once you have added the evaluation, you will be forwarded to the evaluation summary page; click on the icon in the column that reads “Print Paper Request” next to the evaluators name to download and print the PDF version of the Letter of Evaluation Matching Form
  • Submit the form to each evaluator; be sure to advise the evaluator to enclose the form with the letter and mail it directly to ADEA AADSAS
Waivers
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) provides applicants the right to access letters of evaluation written after January 1, 1975, unless they choose to waive their right of inspection and review. Prior to requesting an evaluation, ADEA AADSAS applicants are required to indicate if they wish to waive their rights to each evaluation.
NOTE: ADEA AADSAS does not release any LOEs to applicants, regardless of wavier status.
Applicant Authorization
Within the Evaluators Section, applicants must agree to one of the following statements prior to submitting the evaluation request:

  • I waive my right of access to this evaluation. I understand that I will not be permitted to access this evaluation.
By “waiving your right to access,” you do not have the right to read the evaluation once completed by the evaluator.

  • I do not waive my right of access” to this evaluation.
By not “waiving your right to access,” you have the right to read the evaluation once completed by the evaluator. Please note that ADEA AADSAS however will not allow you to review the evaluation. Applicants will have to contact the designated dental school that their application was mailed to. Access will depend on the dental school whether to release the evaluation to you.
Occasionally, an applicant will forget to check the wavier box in the ADEA AADSAS Application, even though the applicant has already signed a wavier with the evaluator or the health professions advising office.
If the applicant has indicated the wrong waiver status, the applicant must delete the evaluator, correctly re-enter the evaluator’s name and other information, and Save. A new email indicating that you are again requesting an LOE will be sent by ADEA AADSAS to the evaluator. If submitting a paper LOE, the applicant must delete the evaluator, correctly re-enter the evaluator’s information, and print and provide the evaluator with a new LOE Matching Form.
Submitting a Committee Report
Many institutions utilize a Predental Committee Letter/Report for their dental school applicants. These Letters/Reports come in three basic formats:

  • Committee letter with supporting letters attached
  • Committee letter that is composed and uses quotes from various evaluators but does not have supporting letters attached
  • Composite letter, which usually consists of a cover letter from an advising office and a collection of individual evaluation letters that are attached; with composite letters, the advising office serves as a central collection service for the applicant, but does not make additional assessments of the candidate
All three types of Committee Letters/Reports are acceptable to ADEA AADSAS, regardless of the number of evaluations that may be contained within the document. (ADEA AADSAS respects the varying philosophies of colleges and universities as to how best to provide a Committee Letter/Report and therefore does not limit the number of evaluations included.)
If you are having a Committee Letter/Report submitted on your behalf, indicate the name and address of the individual who will submit the letter. If the Committee Letter/Report is to be submitted electronically, indicate in the Evaluators section the name and email address of the individual who will submit the letter.
If you forgot to indicate in the Evaluators section that an individual is submitting a Committee Letter/Report, delete the evaluator, re-enter your information correctly, and Save. If submitting an electronic LOE, the evaluator will receive a new email indicating that you are again requesting an LOE. If the evaluator is submitting a paper LOE, delete the evaluator, correctly re-enter the evaluator’s information, and print and provide the evaluator with a new LOE Matching Form.
To begin adding evaluators, select "Add New Entry" in the Evaluators section of your AADSAS application:

Reference Type
Indicate whether your evaluator will submit an electronic or paper evaluation.
Waiver
Indicate whether you will or will not waive your right to access letters of evaluation sent on your behalf.
Reference’s Title
Indicate the appropriate prefix of your reference (e.g., Dr., Mr., Ms.).
Evaluator’s First Name
Enter the first name of your evaluator.
Evaluator’s Last Name
Enter the last name of your evaluator.
Is this a Committee Letter?
Indicate if the letter of evaluation will be prepared by a committee.
Evaluator’s School/Institution/Business
Enter the school, institutional, or business affiliation of the evaluator.
Evaluator’s Email
Enter the email address of the evaluator. Contact the evaluator for the correct email address.
Evaluator’s Street Address 1
Enter the address and street name of the evaluator.
Evaluator’s Street Address 2
If needed, enter additional address information for the evaluator.
Evaluator’s City
Enter the city name of the evaluator’s address.
Evaluator’s State
Select the state of the evaluator’s address from the drop-down menu.
Evaluator’s ZIP/Postal Code
Enter the ZIP code of the evaluator’s address.
Evaluator’s Country or Territory
Select the country or territory of the evaluator’s address from the drop-down menu.
 
DentalWorks:

When we upload the LOR Matching Form to interfolio, does it need to be filled out (evaluator's information, applicant signature, etc.) before we upload it? Or do we just uploaded the Matching Form??
 
DentalWorks:

When we upload the LOR Matching Form to interfolio, does it need to be filled out (evaluator's information, applicant signature, etc.) before we upload it? Or do we just uploaded the Matching Form??

I am wondering the same thing. Should I digitally fill the missing parts out?
including the signature?
 
Well here is screen shots of how I populated mine (I blocked out my personal information with red marker)... I used my electronic signature. They had no problem with how I did it.

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i know you have to leave the e-mail address part blank if you are doing paper (not electronic) submission for evaluator in the online application but what about the other information like evaluator address, city, state, etc on the actual LOE matching form itself? should these fields be left blank or are they optional?

Well here is screen shots of how I populated mine (I blocked out my personal information with red marker)... I used my electronic signature. They had no problem with how I did it.

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i know you have to leave the e-mail address part blank if you are doing paper (not electronic) submission for evaluator in the online application but what about the other information like evaluator address, city, state, etc on the actual LOE matching form itself? should these fields be left blank or are they optional?

as you can see from above... my LOE matching were electronic as well... I only populated the professor and university name... nothing else.

I had no trouble doing it this way.
 
If I have submitted my aadsas and it has been processed (grades), but they have not received my recommendation letter, will they wait till my recommendation letters are sent to send my application to the dental schools or will they send my application first and then submit the recommendations separately. Thanks
 
If I have submitted my aadsas and it has been processed (grades), but they have not received my recommendation letter, will they wait till my recommendation letters are sent to send my application to the dental schools or will they send my application first and then submit the recommendations separately. Thanks

It won't matter either way cause...

If they send it without LORs, schools won't review your application until everything is finally turned in (LORs, DAT score, etc)
 
Hey DentalWorks,

This thread is really helpful, thank you. Just one clarification though: initially you made it sound like all we need to do is save the LOR Matching Form to our desktop and then upload to Interfolio, for each writer. But then your screenshots imply that you not only saved them but you printed them, filled out the information, scanned them into your computer, and then uploaded to Interfolio (or used an application to write on it, but I'm not that tech savvy). Is the latter process the correct one? (I'm assuming if we did the former then we would just be uploading blank matching forms, which makes no sense...)

Thanks!
 
you can do the forms and signature and filling it out electronically if you have adobe acrobat professional.
 
can we do it this way...filling the form out by hand, scan it, and then upload it to interfolio?
 
And if we don't? Lol
Well, why don't you google for a software that can make forms from PDF and download and install it? Like ezReader or PDF creator. I thought paint was not professional
 
yes you can fill out the form by hand and scan it.
 
Alright, say you've sent out the LOR request to your professors, they took thier time and submitted the letters. Now you have 4 letters in your interfolio account.

Next, when AADSAS opens up (you can't do it now) there is a section called "Evaluators (LOE Matching Forum)"... its this one:
2z40adk.jpg


When you click on that section, it will allow you to have 4 LOR-matching forms requested (because AADSAS only allows a maximum of 4 LORs), here are the 4 matching-forms I requested (each one is for one of my writers
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In the picture above, you see that last column that says "Print LOE Matching Form"... Click on red circle under it and it will open a PDF of the matching form, don't print it, just save it electronically on your PC..... THEN, upload the 4 matching forms into your interfolio account like they are normal documents.

So now your interfolio account will have 8 documents total (the 4 from your writers and 4 matching forms)..... Now you request to have ALL 8 of them sent in 1 envelope to AADSAS.... The end

Hope this helps.


By the way, you will have to do the same thing with your college transcripts (Transcript-matching forms) but you don't use interfolio for that... You just pring a hard copy of the matching form and take it to your college and have the registrar office attach it with your official transcripts.

How do you upload the 4 matching forms onto interfolio? sorry I'm new to interfolio. I understand that 8 in total needs to be sent though. While we're at it could you explain how to send the 8 off as well when we upload them on aadsas?
 
So do we use this matching form just do indicate that the letter writer wrote the letter for me?

If I want to get a recommendation from my dentist,
should I send the matching form to him and make him send

both matching form AND letter on to interfolio?

Sorry again for some repetitive questions..
 
So do we use this matching form just do indicate that the letter writer wrote the letter for me?

If I want to get a recommendation from my dentist,
should I send the matching form to him and make him send

both matching form AND letter on to interfolio?

Sorry again for some repetitive questions..

I haven't used interfolio since I applied in 2010, but If I remember this correctly, yes.

The Matching forum is a barcode for interfolio to scan... it identifies each letter of rec.... thats why they go together in the same envelope
 
So do we use this matching form just do indicate that the letter writer wrote the letter for me?

If I want to get a recommendation from my dentist,
should I send the matching form to him and make him send

both matching form AND letter on to interfolio?

Sorry again for some repetitive questions..

Send the Interfolio matching form and letter to Interfolio.... Do not wait for the AADSAS matching form. You can electronically upload your AADSAS matching form when the app comes out.
 
Send the Interfolio matching form and letter to Interfolio.... Do not wait for the AADSAS matching form. You can electronically upload your AADSAS matching form when the app comes out.

So, let me get this straight.

6/3 - app opens, I download matching form and send this to my recommender.

Letter writer uploads both matching form and his letter to interfolio (or AADSAS)

I send it to AADSAS

done!?


Thank you both dentalworks and JAWSSS
 
^Yup. This is a good time to start hustling them to see if they're almost done with your letters. Hand it to them as soon as portal opens. And check back with them to see if they've submitted them electronically or by mail.
 
Does it matter if they send it to AADSAS directly or to interfolio?

My dentist might prefer mailing as he is in his 60s.
 
If you are sending to interfolio... You would want to do that now, so on June 3rd you can submit the AADSAS matching forms to Interfolio and get those letters sent to AADSAS. If you send the letters to Interfolio on June 3rd (when the cycle opens) you will have to wait for a long time to get those letters to AADSAS. The process is just really long if you put too many steps between your professors and AADSAS.

Fastest way is just to print the matching forms and give them to your professors to send to AADSAS or (even faster) have them submit it all electronically.
 
If you are sending to interfolio... You would want to do that now, so on June 3rd you can submit the AADSAS matching forms to Interfolio and get those letters sent to AADSAS. If you send the letters to Interfolio on June 3rd (when the cycle opens) you will have to wait for a long time to get those letters to AADSAS. The process is just really long if you put too many steps between your professors and AADSAS.

Fastest way is just to print the matching forms and give them to your professors to send to AADSAS or (even faster) have them submit it all electronically.

The thing is though, my dentist wrote my letter but since I have to have matching form with it anyways, I was thinking that there is no purpose for him to upload it to interfolio now.

I plan to just give him the matching form when cycle opens, and let him send it directly to AADSAS.

Does this sound ok?
 
The thing is though, my dentist wrote my letter but since I have to have matching form with it anyways, I was thinking that there is no purpose for him to upload it to interfolio now.

I plan to just give him the matching form when cycle opens, and let him send it directly to AADSAS.

Does this sound ok?

That should work
 
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