AMCAS LOR service - another question

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When you assign specific letters to individual med schools, does AMCAS "send them" or does AMCAS simply notify med schools that these letters are available to them for electronic download?

I ask because some med schools only want letters upon request, just curious how the system actually works.

 

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Funny enough, I just asked AMCAS this question yesterday.

Here is the short answer:Once you have selected a letter that is already on your AMCAS app, for a particular school, that letter is available for the school to Download. AMCAS doesn't send letters via regular mail as of last year.

More detailed explanation of the Letter of Rec process from AMCAS receipt of letters to making them available to medical schools for download:

AMCAS now exclusively uses their Letter of Evaluations (LOE) service. Once they receive a letter from your school's career center or an individual letter author, they scan the letter and add it to your AMCAS application. After the letter has been added to your AMCAS (which takes 1-2 days after receiving the letter), AMCAS makes it avaialble for you to select for whatever schools you want. After you select the letters for individual medical schools, AMCAS makes those letters availalble for the med school to download.

*Note: Only schools with the LOE next to them are in the AMCAS program. For the non-LOE schools, you will have to send those letters to those schools via snail mail or interfolio.

Cheers and good luck!

 

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I figured it worked that way.

So for schools that don't want the letters until after secondaries, or interviews, or whenever, if they use the AMCAS service, they can fetch the letters whenever they choose, and we don't have to worry about the timing...

 

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I figured it worked that way.

So for schools that don't want the letters until after secondaries, or interviews, or whenever, if they use the AMCAS service, they can fetch the letters whenever they choose, and we don't have to worry about the timing...

As long as you have selected a letter for a particular school and paid the fee, it is up to the individual medical school, when they want to download your letters.