I Hate LORs

[mango6110]

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so im slightly stressed out, ive finished my secondaries mostly awhile ago, but my files just got complete due to some negligent profs who are writing my letters, i feel like im so damn late in this process and i wanted to know if anybody was in the same boat

 

[CarlosMielefan]

I was in the same boat till two weeks ago. Luckily, Vandy didn't require LORs and so I got to go to that. Due to this kindly, but rather slow prof, I only just complete at every school - except freaking Yale. I don't think I'll ever be complete at Yale. Quite frankly, if my status doesn't change by the end of the month, I will demand a refund of my money.

But I digress. I just got an invite from Northwestern two days ago. It's been silence since then. Still, I am hopeful that stuff will start to slowly roll in. You've got to stay positive and patient. Keep busy. Check your e-mail once every two days. Reward yourself each time you are able to do this. I bought myself a new shirt last week for going four days and checking my e-mail only twice.

In the mean time, I have sent thank-you cards to all my recommenders - including Mr. late-guy-with-best-intentions-who-sometimes-smells-of-e.coli

Best of luck.

so im slightly stressed out, ive finished my secondaries mostly awhile ago, but my files just got complete due to some negligent profs who are writing my letters, i feel like im so damn late in this process and i wanted to know if anybody was in the same boat

 

[jlee9531]

yeah i gave one of my profs essentially 9 months to write me a letter. and he was still a couple of months late.

 

[wends]

im in the same situation.......finished everything early august, and my last letter that every school is waiting send a few days ago........and its gonna take them a billion years to put it in their system.......... 👎 🙁

 

[nairay]

I was in the same boat until yesterday. My LORs FINALLY got sent out to all my schools because my undergrad bio office sends all my letters as a compliation, and I was waiting on ONE letter for the longest time. Dont' worry though, because these things were out of our control. I took the wait as an opportunity to spend a little more quality time with my secondaries instead of rushing them.

 

[BeatArmy]

Could be worse.
My committee packet was a couple days from going out when Hurricane Ivan hit and practically destroyed my PreMed advisor's office. Set me back at least 6 weeks.