Is there any way to rank your letters of recommendation?

[ThatQuestionGuy]

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I have a lot of letters of recommendation. My undergraduate school sends them all out in a big packet along with the committee letter. I know some med schools have letter limits and I'm worried that some of my stronger letters might not get read while my weaker letters do. Is there a way to rank them? If a school got, say, 9 letters in a packet and had a limit of six what would they do?

 

[FlowLimited]

I imagine they'd read up until they hit the limit if they're that strict. I can't see why they'd choose to randomly skip around. Just put your best letters in the front. Nobody can guarantee that those will be the ones they read, but it's more than likely that they will be.

 

[majestic red]

If your school does a committee letter, I doubt most people would bother to read your individual letters anyway, as the committee letter is supposed to summarize and cherry-pick from all of your letters. I think that unless they want to clarify something they read about in the committee letter, they won't read your actual letters.

 

[ThatQuestionGuy]

If your school does a committee letter, I doubt most people would bother to read your individual letters anyway, as the committee letter is supposed to summarize and cherry-pick from all of your letters. I think that unless they want to clarify something they read about in the committee letter, they won't read your actual letters.

😱 Is this true? Because I would MUCH rather them read the actual individual letters

 

[redrower]

😱 Is this true? Because I would MUCH rather them read the actual individual letters

thats the point of a committee letter; as stated above, it should be a nice summary of everything your recommenders say about you. i cant imagine adcoms taking the time to read everyones individual letter of rec...esp if there is a committee letter

 

[MossPoh]

They just don't read the others. There is an "ok ok we got the point" point. I had 4 physician letters, 3 science letters, a non science and an employer. I never sent all of them. I used my best judgment for most schools. I had a more common batch and then the others were used for specific schools or for places with specific goals in mind.

Don't send all the letters. You just look like a tool.