I am not sure what the MD affiliation has to do with anything. My school does as well. Until recently a ot of amcas schools used interfolio too.
Why don't you just have your school send your letters to the schools to which you're applying?
I felt like it was reasonably affordable. 4$ for an electronic package and $6 for snail mail. This is regardless of how many letters you send to each school. I think they surcharge for over 200 pages or something.Why don't you just have your school send your letters to the schools to which you're applying?
Why are you creating a middle man out of Interfolio and making this more difficult, convoluted, and costly?
And, yes, Interfolio costs money for each packet sent to each school.
Good point. I didn't have any issues with my school, so that didn't really cross my mind.
The school may be willing to do this. My school refused (I tried to this today). Their excuse was that they send PDF's. When I pointed out that they send paper copies to the Optometry letter service, they just said that they don't send to Interfolio. When I asked why they send to virtual evals and not interfolio they said it is because the school is subscribed to virtual evals. My schools advising and letter service are useless.
As to why am I trying to get everything to Interfolio? My school doesn't offer a premedical advisory committee letter and the advisors do not write letters on behalf of the students. They also don't send specific letters to specific schools. Which means I am stuck meeting the letter requirements of each school i.e Dean letter for PCOMs, 1 science faculty letter for school A, 2 science faculty letters for school B, letter from employer (I've been out of school for 2+ years) for school C. Thankfully I work for most of my letter writers so it is not a huge deal to have them send a copy to interfolio (it is just annoying).Why don't you just have your school send your letters to the schools to which you're applying?
Why are you creating a middle man out of Interfolio and making this more difficult, convoluted, and costly?
And, yes, Interfolio costs money for each packet sent to each school.
I was actually curious about the OP, who seemed to have a pre med department or the equivalent that was holding onto the letters.
That is nuts, they are your damn letters. Schools make a difficult process more difficult, and it pisses me off. That and all the advisors who are just clueless. Maybe Mike will call your school.I tried this. My school refused
Yeah but a waiver was probably signed, relinquishing rights. It's a matter of control and confidentiality. Mostly control, probably, in this case.
No waiver or confidentiality excuses were given. I was told that they subscribe to VirtualEvals which is why they wouldn't send to interfolio. They also said that they couldn't send the letter to interfolio because they send letters by PDF, however, on the letter service website, they state that they send paper letters to the optometry application letter service.
Send the packet to interfolioNo waiver or confidentiality excuses were given. I was told that they subscribe to VirtualEvals which is why they wouldn't send to interfolio. They also said that they couldn't send the letter to interfolio because they send letters by PDF, however, on the letter service website, they state that they send paper letters to the optometry application letter service.
There is nothing wrong with VirtualEvals. My issue is that VirtualEvals sends the whole packet of letters that I have built up (~7 letters). Since my school doesn't have a pre-med committee, I'm left meeting the individual letter requirments for each school and interfolio can let me specify which letter goes where. If my school did have the committee letter, I would be more than happy to use VirtualEvals.
I am so fed up with the advisors and letter people at my former school. They have been utterly useless. Part of my desire to get my letters to interfolio is so that I will never have to deal with those clowns agian.
I misunderstood your comment. I didn't think of having VirtualEvals send the packet to Interfolio and don't know if that is even possible.
I know what you are saying, but certain schools do ask you to not send more than the required letters (i.e. DMU). I'm not sure they would appreciate getting ~7 letters when they only want 3.
Apparently there was something in the waiver that I signed stating that they only send letters to certain places (whatever that means). I don't remember seeing that, but I did sign it in 2007 (my fault for not remembering every detail of the form).
