Different Letter Requirements

[DejaEntendu]

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Hey everyone, I have a question related to different schools specific letter requirements. I know when you get secondaries from various schools each one has its own unique letter requirements. I have 5 letters that my advisor has assembled into a packet and on my AMCAS when asked to assign a set of letter to each med school I chose that one. My question is if a school only wants 3 letters or something like that, how do I choose which ones to send and how does that work? Thanks for the insight.

 

[tiedyeddog]

Hey everyone, I have a question related to different schools specific letter requirements. I know when you get secondaries from various schools each one has its own unique letter requirements. I have 5 letters that my advisor has assembled into a packet and on my AMCAS when asked to assign a set of letter to each med school I chose that one. My question is if a school only wants 3 letters or something like that, how do I choose which ones to send and how does that work? Thanks for the insight.

Doesn't a packet = 1 letter?

Send in the letters each medical school requires (usually 2 sci LOR/1 non-sci LOR). Look at their admissions web sites.

 

[Klemptor]

This is how I understand it: I think it depends on how your advisor uploads the letters. Mine is doing a packet letter consisting of committee letter and the letters that contributed to it. But I believe she's planning to upload it as one packet, which means that I won't be able to specify which schools get what. It'll all be in one bunch. But I think some schools send only the committee letter, and it's up to your letter writers to send in their LORs.

I don't know if one person (your advisor) is able to upload more than one letter into AMCAS. I think that the letter request form you give them has one letter ID on it, meaning that whatever they send in response to that will count as one letter.

 

[Mattabet]

Even if a place asks for three, they'll take your packet of five, as long as it meets the requirement for their three letters. You're allowed to have a couple of extra ones. Your advisor probably helped make sure that the 5 letter packet would cover the bases at the vast majority of schools.