Can you submit a committee letter and individual ones?

[hebrewBAMmer]

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So my undergrad institution has a pre-med committee that will write a letter on my behalf. However, they will only include faculty and staff from that institution. Since I graduated 6 years ago, I feel it would also be beneficial to have letters from people who know me well since graduating (e.g. supervisor from work and PhD advisor).

My questions are: Can you submit both the committee letter and individual letters to schools? Would schools look at all of them or would they just look at the committee letter since that satisfies all of their requirements? If I can only do one or the other, would it be better to have the committee letter or have a few individual letters from people at my undergrad + people from post-undergrad?

 

[Frogger27]

Yes

 

[hebrewBAMmer]

while you can send committee letters and indivdual letters, I recommend against it

I'm curious as to why you recommend against it? I certainly understand the benefit of individual letters. If I recall (and it's been awhile), it's highly recommended (and in some places required) to have a humanities LoR. Unfortunately, the only two people who could write a strong one are one who had a stroke and I don't believe can write anymore, and the other one no longer teaches, but I'm trying to get in contact with her. They actually already have a committee letter written from when I was an undergrad. They would just update it some if I asked