Committee letter vs MD letters

[notEinstein]

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If you have 2 letters on Intercom from MD’s, and you also have your school doing a committee letter, do you include the 2 MD letters with the committee letter? In other words, give them to your school?
Or do you submit them separately?

 

[cj_cregg]

You would need to ask your school if they accept/consider/include outside letters in their process.

For AMCAS (can't speak to DO apps), if you submit a committee letter you do NOT need any additional letters beyond that unless the school specifically requests it, and frankly I get mildly annoyed any time I have to read extra letters on top of a 10+ page committee letter. They rarely if ever add anything significant to my understanding of the candidate beyond the committee letter anyway.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

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[AsclepiusAdvisingLLC]

If you have 2 letters on Intercom from MD’s, and you also have your school doing a committee letter, do you include the 2 MD letters with the committee letter? In other words, give them to your school?
Or do you submit them separately?

You may ask your committee to include them in the packet, but often there is a cap on how many letters they are willing to include. If you submit them separately, it is up to the school to decide if they want to read them separately or only focus on the contents of the committee letter.

 

[Goro]

Have mercy on those of us who have to read these things.