Do we HAVE to have letters of rec with our primary?

[229141]

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Almost everyone I know who got accepted from my university said you don't send in LOR's til your SECONDARY application (via interfolio or whatever). People on here are freaking me out..making it seem like you need to have them all ready by june 2nd on your AMCAS...

What is the deal? I'm so confused...and a lot of my letters won't be received til late June so I'm freaking out.

All I know is my friends got accepted without putting any LOR's on their Primary app..

 

[b2fly]

Almost everyone I know who got accepted from my university said you don't send in LOR's til your SECONDARY application (via interfolio or whatever). People on here are freaking me out..making it seem like you need to have them all ready by june 2nd on your AMCAS...

What is the deal? I'm so confused...and a lot of my letters won't be received til late June so I'm freaking out.

All I know is my friends got accepted without putting any LOR's on their Primary app..

" One of the good things about being a grown up is that you dont HAVE to do anything" - Dr. House

Rest with your LOR's, the earlier the better. If you delay anything in this application process, especially early on, it does end up hurting you down the road. Just get them in ASAP. Best of Luck with your Application.

 

[scarletgirl777]

Almost everyone I know who got accepted from my university said you don't send in LOR's til your SECONDARY application (via interfolio or whatever). People on here are freaking me out..making it seem like you need to have them all ready by june 2nd on your AMCAS...

What is the deal? I'm so confused...and a lot of my letters won't be received til late June so I'm freaking out.

All I know is my friends got accepted without putting any LOR's on their Primary app..

You're fine. Letters aren't due until the secondary application and some schools expressly ask you not to send the letters until you've gotten the secondary. The vast majority of applicants are not going to have their LORs received by June. Just strive to have your letters arrive there by the time the secondary arrives there, because no one will read your application until it's complete.

On the other hand, your letters should at least be WRITTEN by now, assuming you are not using a premed committee. Professors are notorious for delaying, procrastinating, and forgetting, so make sure you are not telling them your true deadline.

 

[229141]

You're fine. Letters aren't due until the secondary application and some schools expressly ask you not to send the letters until you've gotten the secondary. The vast majority of applicants are not going to have their LORs received by June. Just strive to have your letters arrive there by the time the secondary arrives there, because no one will read your application until it's complete.

On the other hand, your letters should at least be WRITTEN by now, assuming you are not using a premed committee. Professors are notorious for delaying, procrastinating, and forgetting, so make sure you are not telling them your true deadline.

Got about 3 done, other 3 are being written. Prof's were busy and couldn't write them til summer : (

Thanks though- I just am getting overwhelmed by it all and all the people on here seem like perfect applicants..

 

[scarletgirl777]

Got about 3 done, other 3 are being written. Prof's were busy and couldn't write them til summer : (

Thanks though- I just am getting overwhelmed by it all and all the people on here seem like perfect applicants..

Wow, 6 letters is a lot! Are you really using all these letters? I say set false deadlines because there are some professors that will drag their feet rather than just say they don't want to/don't have time to write a letter. This way if they are over a month late on your false deadline/when they said they'd write it, you know they are a lost cause. But if they can get your letters done in the next couple months you should be fine.

Also, I don't know how early you asked your profs, but that's really sucky that they can't get them done till summer. For future applicants, asking for letters in February is not a bad idea and saying you need them May 1st or so is not a bad idea. 😀

 

[funkydrmonkey]

You're fine. Letters aren't due until the secondary application and some schools expressly ask you not to send the letters until you've gotten the secondary. The vast majority of applicants are not going to have their LORs received by June. Just strive to have your letters arrive there by the time the secondary arrives there, because no one will read your application until it's complete.

On the other hand, your letters should at least be WRITTEN by now, assuming you are not using a premed committee. Professors are notorious for delaying, procrastinating, and forgetting, so make sure you are not telling them your true deadline.

Actually since this year most schools are participating in the LOE program through AMCAS don't the letters need to be done in time for the primary application?

 

[Lukkie]

Actually since this year most schools are participating in the LOE program through AMCAS don't the letters need to be done in time for the primary application?

no you can add them in later

 

[Appless]

Wow, 6 letters is a lot! Are you really using all these letters? I say set false deadlines because there are some professors that will drag their feet rather than just say they don't want to/don't have time to write a letter. This way if they are over a month late on your false deadline/when they said they'd write it, you know they are a lost cause. But if they can get your letters done in the next couple months you should be fine.

Also, I don't know how early you asked your profs, but that's really sucky that they can't get them done till summer. For future applicants, asking for letters in February is not a bad idea and saying you need them May 1st or so is not a bad idea. 😀

I set a deadline of may 1st for all my profs...and yet i have 1/4 letters.....lol i imagine im going to get all my LORs by sept or so at this rate...how hard is it to mail a damn letter

 

[mvenus929]

I set a deadline of may 1st for all my profs...and yet i have 1/4 letters.....lol i imagine im going to get all my LORs by sept or so at this rate...how hard is it to mail a damn letter

I apparently chose my letter writers well; my employer wrote the letter and submitted it to interfolio within an hour of me asking for it (okay, maybe two, it was before I left work, at any rate). One of my professors uploaded his letter the same day, and the other took about a week to get it done. Of course, the professors had written letters for me before, so it was just a matter of updating them and then submitted them, but still...

 

[scarletgirl777]

I apparently chose my letter writers well; my employer wrote the letter and submitted it to interfolio within an hour of me asking for it (okay, maybe two, it was before I left work, at any rate). One of my professors uploaded his letter the same day, and the other took about a week to get it done. Of course, the professors had written letters for me before, so it was just a matter of updating them and then submitted them, but still...

Yeah, asking people who've written you letters before is the best, especially if you were able to get into whatever program you applied to with their letters.

 

[chessknt]

You are freaking out over them being sent in late June? Very few people have their primary submitted before then and they get in.....

 

[BlueElmo]

Okay, so after we submit our primary, we can still add letters even though we didn't list them in the primary, right?

I'm not sure if I want to have my employer write my letter until around mid-June, when I would already have submitted my primary.

 

[G1SG2]

I set a deadline of may 1st for all my profs...and yet i have 1/4 letters.....lol i imagine im going to get all my LORs by sept or so at this rate...how hard is it to mail a damn letter

I know right!!!