Help On Secondaries

[spongiebob]

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Hey All:

I'm A Bit Confused About The Secondaries Process......

The Professor Letters-do I Send Them Directly To The Schools Or Do They Send Them?
The Physician Lor-same Question

Also, Are Letters Sent After I Receive A Supplemental Application From Each School Or When? Thanks All God Bless

 

[spongiebob]

@bump

 

[ShyRem]

Usually they send them. Some schools won't accept letters you haven't waived your rights to. You can get around asking them 50 times for another letter to be sent out by using interfolio.

LORs are sent after you get a secondary app from each school (usually - there are a few exceptions to this, but I think they are MD schools). The secondary instructions should tell you what kind and how many LORs each school requires.

 

[dr.z]

You should have the writers send them or use the letter forwarding service. They don't want you to send it.

 

[goinverted]

I stamped and addressed a bunch of envelopes and sent them to my LOR writers so they could just drop in the letter and mail them.

 

[Kubed]

I stamped and addressed a bunch of envelopes and sent them to my LOR writers so they could just drop in the letter and mail them.

I tried to give stamped envelopes to my professors, but they just chuckled. They said that most letter writers will send them out on letterhead using an intuitional envelope.

 

[Lady Tokimi]

I tried to give stamped envelopes to my professors, but they just chuckled. They said that most letter writers will send them out on letterhead using an intuitional envelope.

Yeah...that's true. I asked my professor and he gave me some instituitionial envelopes and i just stamped (the 37c stamps) those and gave them back to him. I did that for my LOR from my DO also.

 

[gotgame83]

Its probably not the best procedure but I will be sending the letters of rec from the DO i shadowed. I dont have most of my secondaries yet because my application wont be complete until I take the august mcat. I wouldnt want her to send a letter to a school that doesnt even have a file on me yet. So hopefully she understands and I was planning on sending them along with my secondaries in the fall.

 

[ShyRem]

I suppose you could get around the waiver thing if you asked your writer for 20 letters in sealed envelopes. That way you can just print out a label, stick a stamp on it, and mail it yourself yet still honestly say you have not seen the letter.