How to handle a situation regarding Letter of Recommendation

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Weird situation about my LOR’s… I have a very similar situation regarding an LOR from a professor as another poster. Except my situation is a little different. Things started to turn bad before this person wrote the LOR. Now, I didn’t want to say to this prof that I didn’t want her letter. But nevertheless, the letter is now in my file. Can I request that the letter never gets sent? I think this is the best way to handle the situation.

 

[MassTransport]

If your school has a pre-health center that handles recommendations, talk with them or look at their website to see your options. I know that at my school it's policy for all received letters to be sent, but others may be different. If you're using Interfolio, you should be able to choose whether or not to send it (although I'm not sure about that, if somebody who uses the service can confirm or correct?).

You may just have to bite the bullet, one way or another. Good luck!

 

[whatintheworld?]

At my school the health professions committee picks out the best letters from what is in your file and only sends those. So check out their policies.

 

[OncoCaP]

Weird situation about my LOR's… I have a very similar situation regarding an LOR from a professor as another poster. Except my situation is a little different. Things started to turn bad before this person wrote the LOR. Now, I didn't want to say to this prof that I didn't want her letter. But nevertheless, the letter is now in my file. Can I request that the letter never gets sent? I think this is the best way to handle the situation.

Talk to your health professions office that handles this. At my school you would be stuck with the letter (it would be impossible to get out of it). I had a slightly different situation where one school wanted a certain kind of recommender that I didn't have on file. I had to send that additional letter separately because my school had no flexibility when it came to these letters -- it was all letters or no letters sent out. I had a former med school prof who was literally asking me if he could write me a recommendation and I was unable to squeeze him in because, again, there was no flexibility when it came to these letters. If you know the letter is bad (usually you can only guess), you may even want to delay a year in applying because a bad recommendation letter is almost certainly an automatic rejection.