Hi everyone. I’ve made a huge mistake with my letter of recommendation entries on the amcas application. Basically, I ended up adding double of all existing entries and didn’t realize that “no longer sending” still counted towards the maximum of entries you can add. I was having trouble with Interfolio. Now, I can’t add two other letters of recommendation that were extremely important and some of my stronger letters too. Not sure what to do at this point :/ Anyone have any experience with this? I tried to call amcas but they are closed at this point.
Letter of Recommendation HELP
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I would try to relax until you figure out if you can get some help from them or not. You have until the end of June to submit your application before it's considered late so you have enough time to relax and try to figure it out.
Appreciate it. I hope AMCAS is helpful tomorrow. Fingers crossed
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Call them as soon as they open or you'll be on hold for hours.
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The answer to this is very simple. There is no need to call AMCAS, or to cross your fingers. They are actually very particular about their rules, and do not make exceptions. Last year, someone mistakenly withdrew their application to make a minor change, and only later discovered that once you withdraw, you are done for the cycle. And, that was it. Their cycle was over, just like that. No exception.
So, the question is, have you already submitted? If not, you are fine and can just delete the duplicate entries. If so, you ignored @Moko's advice about not rushing to be in on 5/27, and, unfortunately, are now SOL.
From the 2022 AMCAS Applicant Guide: "After the initial submission of your AMCAS application, letter entries may not be deleted; instead, they may be designated as “No Longer Being Sent.” This can only be completed if the letter has not been received by AMCAS. Log in to your application and go to the Letters of Evaluation section to make the designation." THIS is what they are going to tell you when you call tomorrow, assuming you have already submitted. Good luck, and please report back tomorrow so hopefully someone else can benefit from your experience.
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There is a pretty huge difference between a clerical mistake and doing something as drastic as withdrawing the app. Imho it's worth a shot at the very least.
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TOTALLY worth a shot.
My observation, however, is that they have shown themselves to be very inflexible. The withdrawn app was also a "clerical mistake" insofar as the applicant was only doing it to make small, insignificant edits to the application, extremely early in the cycle, and did not understand that resubmission was not an option.
In the same way, OP here blew through all 10 of his LOR slots, without understanding that once submitted, those LOR slots are gone. Unlike a FAFSA form, where you can literally designate an unlimited number of schools by listing, submitting, replacing and submitting again, AMCAS locks the application by not allowing us to delete and replace LORs.
Yes, this mistake is an innocent, clerical one, but AMCAS designed the form to prevent what we do with the FAFSA, and, I'm pretty sure that they will be both unable and unwilling to modify the application to allow OP to reset his LOR slots. JMHO, and I agree that he absolutely needs to call to beg, plead and confirm. I am afraid, however, that this is going to turn out to be the latest example of why it is counterproductive to rush a submission for whatever purported advantage there is to being first in line.
