Can you remove a LOR?

[CaptainPoopyPants]

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A doctor I work with is a great guy and has agreed to write an LOR for me. I'm confident it will be a good letter, but he's very busy and taking forever. I've already asked him about it twice and I don't want to keep bothering him. However, some of my secondaries are being held up because they won't verify until they receive all the letters I've sent to their school. Is there anyway to unsend a letter? And even if you could, will this look bad?

 

[honeybee87]

A doctor I work with is a great guy and has agreed to write an LOR for me. I'm confident it will be a good letter, but he's very busy and taking forever. I've already asked him about it twice and I don't want to keep bothering him. However, some of my secondaries are being held up because they won't verify until they receive all the letters I've sent to their school. Is there anyway to unsend a letter? And even if you could, will this look bad?

Unfortunately, no. That’s why gonnif always advises not to do this

 

[deleted987519]

A doctor I work with is a great guy and has agreed to write an LOR for me. I'm confident it will be a good letter, but he's very busy and taking forever. I've already asked him about it twice and I don't want to keep bothering him. However, some of my secondaries are being held up because they won't verify until they receive all the letters I've sent to their school. Is there anyway to unsend a letter? And even if you could, will this look bad?

On AMCAS, you can update your LOR and select his as "no longer being sent"; schools will know not to expect it anymore. Ironically, if he does end up sending it to AMCAS it will still be transmitted to all the schools

 

[Catalystik]

A doctor I work with is a great guy and has agreed to write an LOR for me. I'm confident it will be a good letter, but he's very busy and taking forever. I've already asked him about it twice and I don't want to keep bothering him. However, some of my secondaries are being held up because they won't verify until they receive all the letters I've sent to their school. Is there anyway to unsend a letter? And even if you could, will this look bad?

You can indicate that the letter is "No longer being sent." If it does show up belatedly, it will still be transmitted to those schools which you originally designated.

Edit: ninjaed by @OxenFoxen who must be a faster typist.

 

[honeybee87]

On AMCAS, you can update your LOR and select his as "no longer being sent"; schools will know not to expect it anymore. Ironically, if he does end up sending it to AMCAS it will still be transmitted to all the schools

Hmmmm I didn’t know that lol

 

[deleted987519]

You can indicate that the letter is "No longer being sent." If it does show up belatedly, it will still be transmitted to those schools which you originally designated.

Edit: ninjaed by @OxenFoxen who must be a faster typist.

I absolutely smoked CASPer

 

[Catalystik]

I absolutely smoked CASPer

Hopefully, with equally accurate writing mechanics. 👍 [Not that they care.]

 

[CaptainPoopyPants]

Ok that's good to know, but will it looks bad? Will schools think I'm trying to avoid a bad letter or something like that? I actually think his letter will be very positive. He's just taking too long.

 

[Catalystik]

Ok that's good to know, but will it looks bad? Will schools think I'm trying to avoid a bad letter or something like that? I actually think his letter will be very positive. He's just taking too long.

All MD schools know that "life happens" and keeps some LORs from being written for perfectly acceptable reasons. Don't worry about it.

 

[electropartyogram]

I don't want to hijack this but I had to change evaluators today as well. I have a question: For schools that require all letters in for the secondary to be complete, how do I go about removing the old evaluator from the secondary so I can be marked complete? Email admissions? Thanks.

 

[Kardio]

I don't want to hijack this but I had to change evaluators today as well. I have a question: For schools that require all letters in for the secondary to be complete, how do I go about removing the old evaluator from the secondary so I can be marked complete? Email admissions? Thanks.

I just wanna say that your username made me actually lol