if your school sends a "packet" of letters, be careful!

[Milhouse Van Houten]

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my school sends a packet of letters, but has no advisor or premedical committee. so when i have to answer the secondary question "composite letter or letters from individual faculty" i really don't know what to do. i wrote individual faculty letters, assuming that onece they got the envelope full of letters they'd see that they're all in there. not true. i called, and some schools said they weren't even opening that envelope until they received the letters directly from the professors; they assumed that the letters in the packet were extras. so what should i do now and in the future. i'm considering writing "committee letter" and just sending the packet. what do you think? thank you.

 

[moo]

You can't send the package yourself. Most schools won't accept that because it's not "official." My advice to you is to get the profs to individually send the letters off themselves.

 

[6-8 Weeks]

Petros, could you tell us what school that was that would not open the envelope? My school sends packets of letters as well and I want to check up on that.

 

[C U in MD school]

u dont need to list each person
just write "committee letter"
this is what I have done, and all the schools have said it's ok.

 

[lilycat]

Well, I applied last year, and was in the same situation as the OP -- my school sent out a packet of ALL the letters that I designated (which were on file at a central office). On my secondary forms, I just worte in the names of the individual letter writers if I was asked. I never had a problem, so this should be pretty rare.

My one recommendation is to call the med schools within 3 weeks after having your letters sent, and verify that they have been received. There were 2 schools that I had to send packets to twice, but otherwise things went pretty smoothly.