Compelling enough to skip committee?

[armz8b]

I've browsed the forums looking for advice but everyone complains about a committee letter in August. Well mine won't even meet with me until mid-September which likely means my letter won't go out until October. Should I ask the schools if I can just submit my letters because this will delay me by 3 months since I've finished everything else and my undergrad is screwing me over? I just don't want to come off as a whining pre-med (like I am now )

Thanks

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[Mt Kilimanjaro]

I've browsed the forums looking for advice but everyone complains about a committee letter in August. Well mine won't even meet with me until mid-September which likely means my letter won't go out until October. Should I ask the schools if I can just submit my letters because this will delay me by 3 months since I've finished everything else and my undergrad is screwing me over? I just don't want to come off as a whining pre-med (like I am now )

Thanks

Is it your fault you are meeting so late? Surely they are aware the application season starts in July, not October, so it seems odd that they would schedule the initial meeting so late.

 

[armz8b]

Is it your fault you are meeting so late? Surely they are aware the application season starts in July, not October, so it seems odd that they would schedule the initial meeting so late.

My school doesn't start interviewing until a little bit into August and only interviews a few people each day so i got bumped to september. They require that our LORs get in before we can schedule an interview. One of my letter writers had a family member pass away and took an extra month to get her letter in than I asked for. So that was the only issue on my end.

When I complained about h ow late they meet my advisor told me how our school (essentially nonrolling) doesn't look at apps until October :/

Sent this from my phone so sorry for any errors

 

[hmockingbird]

I think it's possible you could apply as is. A lot of schools will ask on the secondaries why you didn't include a committee letter, and if it's clearly not your fault you could just say you wanted to be able to submit your application (much) earlier in the application cycle than when your letter-writing committee meets?

 

[TheBossDoctor]

This is why I'm so glad I don't have a pre-med committee at our school. Don't have to deal with any of their politics or BS delays.

I've never really understood the point of a committee letter either...does it supposedly get a well-rounded letter since it incorporates info from all of the different letter writers? Because if so, I still have a hard time believing that they can combine the different letters and write their own letter without knowing the applicant (other than through an interview).

 

[jdfamily]

If you have the letters I would consider applying to schools without the committee letter first, just fulfilling their other letter requirements instead. I would later submit the committee letter (that way your application will be looked at more early and will have an update later on that you can notify schools about).

That' just me though. Boo your premed committee!

 

[armz8b]

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I will submit my letters to those schools that say either/or and e-mail the ones that say they prefer. I just don't want to send my LORs and then have my committee submit the same letters and annoy some adcoms

Time to go fight for my letters that the committee already has. whoohoo