2008-2009 Letter of Recommendation Thread

[Ayuka001]

1. do you guys recommend using the school's letter sending service (which costs more) or Interfolio? really I don't care too much about the costs, I just want the one with reliable service. I have heard good things about Interfolio here while for my school, I haven't heard anything good or bad so.....

2. when is the best year to ask for LOR's if i plan to apply end of my 3rd year? if I start asking sometime in my 2nd year is that too early (since I might have more stuff to put on my resume by my 3rd year)?

3. when asking for a LOR, what do I need to give the prof? a resume and a personal statement? and is the personal statement just explain why I want to go to med school?


thank you soo much!!! please help me out

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[medicalfool]

HI, I just realized that I need a LOR from DO to apply to most of the schools. I dont know any DO but if i start contacting DO now and ask them to get the letter. DO you think it would be late? I dont know how long it would take the whole process--from contacting to getting letter. BUt If I get the letter by like September, would it be late???

 

[Semicolon]

HI, I just realized that I need a LOR from DO to apply to most of the schools. I dont know any DO but if i start contacting DO now and ask them to get the letter. DO you think it would be late? I dont know how long it would take the whole process--from contacting to getting letter. BUt If I get the letter by like September, would it be late???

You send letters out with secondaries, not primaries, so if you somehow did get a letter by September, it wouldn't be late.

Regardless, most DO schools do NOT require a DO letter, however most do recommend having one.