Are Wake Forest's rec forms really necessary?

[SMW]

My school has a letter sending service. All my letters are on file, and they send them out whenever I request them to. Do I really need to also get the two profs I listed on their secondary to fill out their recommendation form? They say they want the letter (if the recommender chooses to send one! ) attached to this silly form. This is the only school I'm applying to that's asked for anything like this! Reminds me of applying to undergrad. One would think a school would rather have an actual letter than a checklist/grid form!! Am I wasting $55.00 if I don't do this? Do you think I could just have the profs send in the form separately from the letters sent by the letter service? I waited forever to get their secondary and now this nonsense makes me wonder if I really want to go there.

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[Scooby Doo]

Don't bother..if you have a letter writing service just send the letters..most schools don't care. I got an interview at Wake without sending in their forms and they didn't seem to mind

Damn, you gotta change your name...I keep thinking you're a male!
haha....
Maybe if you put your pic up in your signature haha

 

[jthorn1227]

I would just call Wake Forest and ask them. I would guess that it's not necessary since they don't need one for the composite or from the premed committee. Just call and ask...hopefully they wont be rude.

 

[gower]

Composite committee letters are preferred. If there is no committee, two individual faculty recommendations, of which one should be from a science professor, are accepted. A statement of the good standing status of a student is desirable. Letters should ideally be received at the same time as the secondary application is submitted. Letters for the applicant submitted earlier are held.

 

[K271]

SMW - I thought the same thing, so I asked them about it. They said it's really not necessary to send in their form...

 

[SMW]

Thanks, everyone!