Assigning LORs in AMCAS

[treeper]

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As I was filling out my AMCAS app, I automatically assigned all of my LORs to all of my schools. I'm pretty confident they are all really good, and I assumed that was best. I have one committee letter (has 5 letters, but one summary letter) from my undergrad, three LORs from my grad professors, and 1 from a past employer = 5 total. I didn't even think about the fact that some schools might not want so many. And now I can't change letter assignments since I submitted AMCAS.... Do you think this is a big problem?

 

[treeper]

c'moooon.... somebody has to know about this! Anyone?? Please 🙂

 

[Tensyle]

Assign letters on AMCAS? WHen I applied 2 years ago, letters were sent to individual schools thru our LOR office, to whom you'd specifiy which letters go to which schools.

If AMCAS is now asking you to list letters for schools, then just call up AMCAS to see if they can get this fixed for you. Some schools may get annoyed as they specifically state "no more than X number of letters" while others wont have a problem with it.

 

[treeper]

I guess I could do that. I probably should get on it, huh?

The thing I don't understand though, is that I had to assign LORs to certain schools before I even submitted. But don't you find out through secondaries about specific LOR requirements?? So how could I have known beforehand?

 

[Tensyle]

yeah, the whole assigning letters before secondaries is kinda weird to me. ive never heard of that before.

 

[futuredoctor10]

The thing I don't understand though, is that I had to assign LORs to certain schools before I even submitted. But don't you find out through secondaries about specific LOR requirements?? So how could I have known beforehand?

yeah, the whole assigning letters before secondaries is kinda weird to me. ive never heard of that before.

If your school does a composite letter, then you do not need to worry about assigning individual letters based on the number accepted/required by the school (3 vs 4 letters for example), since all schools will get your composite letter or composite packet. Thus, you can assign the composite LOR/LORs on AMCAS before receiving secondaries.

 

[Tensyle]

If your school does a composite letter, then you do not need to worry about assigning individual letters based on the number accepted/required by the school (3 vs 4 letters for example), since all schools will get your composite letter or composite packet. Thus, you can assign the composite LOR/LORs on AMCAS before receiving secondaries.

ah that makes more sense now.