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[Icebird]

Letters of intent/interest tend to not hold much weight because of situations like this post.

In all honesty I don’t think it could hurt you as negatively as you think it might but I do find it hard to believe you can properly articulate that multiple schools are your “dream school”

 

[valkirieas]

Maybe send out an addendum saying that your dreams are open to interpretation 🤣

In all seriousness, they've already been sent. nothing to do about it now, and dwelling on it certainly won't help anyone, especially you

 

[jarednogeek]

indifferent. but why would you say that? it's basically a lie to say multiple schools are your dream school

 

[KnightDoc]

indifferent. but why would you say that? it's basically a lie to say multiple schools are your dream school

Unless he has multiple dreams, with a different school featured in each dream! 🙂

Honestly, I don't understand why people keep starting these threads if they are not trolls, since they are so easy to find using the search function, and the responses are predictably the same each time.

 

[Goro]

sending multiple makes me feel disingenuous 🙁

The very fact that you are sending multiples show why Admissions dean treat them as worthless.

You already showed your interest by sending in your apps

read this:
“How are LOIs worthless? Do they just hold no weight whatsoever/not get read usually?”

How would you interpret a nonbinding promise from a desperate applicant?

Here’s one Adcom member’s thoughts on the matter:

“We only invite amazing students to interview. It is quite unlikely that further good deeds or achievements will have an effect since only the students who have already wowed us are interviewed.”



“One serious thought for a moment. You want to become a physician, a profession that highly values ethical behavior. Yet even before you start training for this profession, you want take the unethical act of making promises to two different schools that you will attend over any other school?” -gonnif

From the wise Med Ed: [What med schools…] accept and desire are two different things. My institution, for instance, will accept practically anything a given applicant wants to forward along, but only rarely do we consider it a worthwhile addition to the package.

And yes, some of us have gotten a little jaded about LOI's. I could fill a barrel with all the post-interview correspondence I have received that has not translated into a single matriculant. This has all gotten mighty complicated and burdensome for what is essentially a zero sum game.

It's generally not burdensome for an applicant to upload something to the portal, and once in a great while it does tip us off with some useful info. I can think of one individual who had a stellar application, like Harvard/Yale/Stanford-worthy, and a superb interview, who sent us several updates and a LOI. We were somewhat perplexed by this person's tenacious interest in our program. Turns out there were family/geographical reasons behind the whole thing, the applicant just never felt comfortable directly playing that card.

When it comes down to waitlist time I will scan through what folks have uploaded post-interview. The vast majority of times it has no impact. Occasionally I have seen it hurt people's chances. Come to think of it, in my experience this is probably more likely, than such correspondence having a positive impact.

See the following for classic examples of why most Admissions deans treat these as lies.

https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/loi-and-interviews.1252832/#post-18849958

I told a school I'd go if accepted, now not so sure

Hi All, So earlier this year I was waitlisted at a school that was my undoubted first choice. My boyfriend (we are applying together) was accepted there a month or so ago, and so we decided that we'd send the admissions staff a letter, basically saying "If you accept Not A Troll, we will both...

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And if you still don’t believe me, read these:

HomeSkool's Guide to Letters of Intent

Second letter of intent? Help!

 

[paradoxic_toxic]

It's like proposing to 2 different lovers at the same time. It's not going to end well.

 

[throwawayofcourse]

Depends on what you say I think! "hey FYI I'm still interested" is different than "U my #1 bby, I'm #committed to this relationship"

 

[juliannewman]

I blame schools for being this needy for attention and validation from applicants prior to decisions coming out