Sending out a LOR to try and get interviews?

thelight · Aug 12, 2012

So i just applied for this cycle and finished up the majority of my secondaries, and I'm ready to play the waiting game to hear back for interview invites or rejections.

I am a decent candidate with medium to strong ECs, good GPA with upward trend but MCAT is a 29. I am waiting to request a LOR for a position I started right in May as an ER tech from my nursing manager. I think it will be a strong LOR and gives me great clinical experience and good perspective about my capabilities as a future physician (luckily i work in a teaching hospital, so im learning alot).

I was wondering when would be the appropriate time to send out this letter to schools, should I be using it to try and solicit some interviews or give it some more time? I'm not sure how to play this.

Any advice is appreciated! thanks in advance.

DAPI · Aug 12, 2012

thelight said:
So i just applied for this cycle and finished up the majority of my secondaries, and I'm ready to play the waiting game to hear back for interview invites or rejections.

I am a decent candidate with medium to strong ECs, good GPA with upward trend but MCAT is a 29. I am waiting to request a LOR for a position I started right in May as an ER tech from my nursing manager. I think it will be a strong LOR and gives me great clinical experience and good perspective about my capabilities as a future physician (luckily i work in a teaching hospital, so im learning alot).

I was wondering when would be the appropriate time to send out this letter to schools, should I be using it to try and solicit some interviews or give it some more time? I'm not sure how to play this.

Any advice is appreciated! thanks in advance.

+1

I was curious if schools would actually download another LOR later in the cycle, say October or November on their own (if thats when you upload it cause it took that long for your supervisor to get to know you and then write it), or if you would have to prompt them with an update letter or something say, oh BTW, I started a new job in August and have done X, Y, and Z there and now have a LOR from my supervisor saying he/she fully supports my med school endeavors and recommends me.

Anyone have any experience with this?

DAPI · Aug 13, 2012

Anyone??

SaintJude · Aug 13, 2012

DAPI said:
+1

I was curious if schools would actually download another LOR later in the cycle, say October or November on their own (if thats when you upload it cause it took that long for your supervisor to get to know you and then write it), or if you would have to prompt them with an update letter or something say, oh BTW, I started a new job in August and have done X, Y, and Z there and now have a LOR from my supervisor saying he/she fully supports my med school endeavors and recommends me.

Anyone have any experience with this?

I'm not totally sure, but I think it works like this when it comes to LORs you upload to AMCAS:

Every week or so, medical schools receive any updates electronically via AMCAS. Once you upload your LOR to AMCAS to a specific school, they should thus automatically receive it until their LOR deadline. I think after the deadline, you may have to notify them individually-which is perhaps why Duke does not use AMCAS LOR since it only requests recs after the interview.

UCFKnight · Aug 13, 2012

I would call the schools individually to see if they will download an extra LOR just to be sure. The first thing I thought about though was mentioning it in an update. But definitely call the admissions office tomorrow to be sure.

As for the OP, I would send it in ASAP. I have a 29 on the MCAT as well with everything in but LORs (waiting on my pre-health committee to send out my packet), and it is stressing me out. I would request it now if your manager knows you well enough because it could take her some time to complete it.

thelight · Aug 13, 2012

well the thing is that i already have my committee letter posted to AMCAS so all my schools pretty much received the LORs via teh committee letter because all of my secondaries are in. my real question is how to go about getting this new LOR into schools. thanks for the advice btw

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