Assigning New LOR

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So I have received a application completion email from multiple schools I have submitted secondaries to. I have met the LOR with my pre-health committee letter. A physician I work with that I asked for a letter has since submitted his to AMCAS as of yesterday.

My question: can I simply assign this letter to all of my schools and they will download it? Or do I also have to email/call them and let them know of this new submission. Furthermore, if I haven’t received a secondary from a school yet, I can just assign the new letter without letting them know, correct? Thanks for any input.

 

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1) You can assign a letter to all schools and it will automatically be transmitted

2) Since schools get 5000+ applications and have to process all them (call it workflow), much of this system is automated and/or is tracked online. Therefore, schools may have an initial "checkbox" for what letters are in and how they fill the requirement. So once the requirement is filled and checked, it may or may not allow another letter to formally added. So the letter will be in your file, but not be part of the list to evaluate. All depends on the school

3) whether or not a school chooses to read it has several variables
-If the file is marked complete, it may be in evaluator queue in static form (pdf) and will not be update
-If you email the school, that may or may not prompt them to include it
-If you send it, you are telling them to move the file out of ready to evaluate queue, open it up, add the letter, then put it back in at bottom of queue?

4) While schools has lessen restrictions on where letters must come from, more schools are now holding to the specifications they do list, such as maximum number of letters. This includes the specification of Committee letter OR Individual letters. If now send an individual letter, are you now telling the school that you want to fill the individual letter requirement? will that mean they will hold your file until they get however anymore are needed to fill that?

5) Keep in mind that your committee letter may have 4-6 academic letters attached than the evaluator will read. Now you want them to read another one that may be technically beyond the max letter limit

6) Lastly, unless a school requires a physician letter, or this is someone you have worked/studied under in something other shadowing, the letters are not particularly impactful.

Thanks for the replay @gonnif
I only got this letter at the last moment because I realized USUHS requires a clinical letter regardless of a committee letter. I just wanted to get as much use out of it as possible, as I have worked with this doctor as a Scribe for 2 years. Seems like I need to avoid adding it to compete schools though. As a follow up question, say I have an outstanding requirement still for schools, like a Casper test, could I then send in the letter since my file is not complete. Also, would it be okay to send it to schools where I have not received secondaries?

 

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If you have a committee letter in place, then what is this letter for? Do you want to make an evaluator read more? Do you want the admissions staff who is checking for file for completeness now see both a committee letter and an individual and wonder which requirement you are trying to fill? Do the schools you are sending it to have a committee OR individual requirement? So, yes you can send it; yes the schools will get it; and yes it will get into your file. what will happen after that is up to the school.

Well it has to go to USUHS. And the physician is a faculty member at another medical school, so I wanted to send it to that one.