Hi there,
We Canadians tend to feel a tad disadvantaged due to the lack of a premedical advisory committee at all Canadian universities. 🙁 That's where those fabbo recommendations on this board to use Interfolio.com, etc., come in handy for us. What a service! I was sceptical at first, never having used anything akin to this before. My letter writers, too, felt similar. Most of them had never heard of such a deal, but they were extremely pleased with it, i.e., being able to electronically submit one letter.
If anyone has no premed advisory option, I'd highly recommend this route. Once your letters arrive, the company automatically sends you an alert to give you the heads up. All the letters are stored in your own portfolio, so when you need to arrange a delivery, you do so over the web-based system. You can then specify delivery mode, and these include a couple of traceable, next-day options. Thanks to this, my nightmare of asking a bunch of writers for 30-odd letters, and following-up on each has turned into something grotesquely simple.
By the way, I mentioned this on another thread somewhere, but there are a few schools out there who are zippily confirming receipt of letters, i.e., on the same day of arrival (and thus, receipt of a completed application, ready for review). These include: Baylor, Dartmouth, Georgetown, U. Penn and Cornell. Others such as Yale, Hopkins, USC, Saint Louis, Tulane, U. Conn and Pritzker seem to be taking a bit longer.
Cheers,
Kirsteen
