Dear someone who has matched before or is in the process....

[sether52do]

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I am in my 3rd year and have been asking for LORs from the core electives I have been doing. They have all obliged and sent them to my clinical affairs department. I was reading through the CAS stuff last night and saw that they want my CAS number on my LORs. How can I go about doing this when I won't have a CAS # or SF Match # until next year?

Thanks for any and all advice.

 

[4424]

you will need the original in a sealed envelope with the signature across the seal. it's ok if you add your match# on the front of the envelope

 

[Haptic]

I thought the easiet thing with LORs was having them sent electronically. Your stud. affairs office or the writer can do this and then put your # in the email/email subject

 

[Vballguy]

One of my letters was sent electronically. My student affairs office put all the rest of the letters together (without a CAS#) and placed the CAS# on the outside of the envelope.

 

[kulkarka]

i think the best thing to do (if it's not too late for you already) is: when you ask your faculty member for an LOR, have them send one copy to your school, and another copy to you, in a sealed envelope with your signature across the seal. you can send the envelope in with your CAS materials. don't worry about the CAS # or the AAMC #, it's not necessary for either. you won't even get your AAMC # until July, and by then you should already have asked for all of your ophtho letters anyway.

 

[sether52do]

Thanks! This all helps a lot!

Sincerely,

sether52DO

p.s. See some of you later in the 2009 trail....

 

[NJ Ophtho]

the sf match materials say you can send LORs as a word file, but when I called SF match, the person i talked to advised me not to do that and to definitely have it scanned as a PDF. His rationale was that it looks better to have the rec on letterhead, signed, etc.

Just wanted to mention it because emailing the word doc seems like a fast way to get a letter in, but I wouldn't do it.

having the student affairs office do the scanning is a good idea - didn't think of that myself, and thought it would be hard for me to scan the letter without reading it 🙂