Can adcoms request or see college LOR's?

[Palam]

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This sounds like a fishy question but allow me to explain. I have a LOR coming from a professor who wrote one for me when I applied to college. It was a fantastic letter and it undoubtedly helped me get in.

While he's written me a new letter for medical school, it's more of a list of what I've done rather than why I'm unique from other candidates. I think his college LOR was much more pertinent to why I should be a physician.

Can we use his original letter? Or reword it with a few add-ons? Or is that a bad idea? Something tells me adcoms don't care about what college LOR's said.

 

[milkphlegm]

I'm pretty sure they'd never see your college LOR's and wouldn't try to.

 

[Geebeejay]

They wouldn't care about your recommendations from high school....for the same reason they don't care about anything you did in high school. The 21+ year old version of you is and should be a much different package than the 17 year old you. If you don't think your professor's letter is good enough, don't use it and find another one instead.

 

[Palam]

I consider this professor to be a friend of mine so it's not like I wouldn't use his letter. It's just he was just on the right track the first time around.

Now that I think about it, there's no reason he can't write the same letter over again.

Thread delete!

 

[Palam]

They wouldn't care about your recommendations from high school....for the same reason they don't care about anything you did in high school. The 21+ year old version of you is and should be a much different package than the 17 year old you. If you don't think your professor's letter is good enough, don't use it and find another one instead.

I didn't have recommendations from high school! But it's not that I think it isn't 'good enough' it was just more a listing of my accomplishments. Adcoms will read my resume so they don't necessarily need that.

 

[Palam]

If the professor who wrote you the college LOR has given you a copy of his Med School LOR, they you should close enough/comfortable enough to bring the subject up to him since he felt comfortable enough to let you see both. Show him the original college LOR and see if will do a rewrite for you.

To be clear, I was more just wondering if someone would at some point have both letters in their hand and see they were essentially the same.