Letters of reference that fink out?

[GoodmanBrown]

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Just curious how many of your letters of reference seem like they probably will never end up sending it. I have 7 LORs (a lot I admit), but probably 3 won't ever send a letter despite about 3 calls, 3 e-mails, and several Facebook messages each. One keeps promising he'll do it "in the next couple of days," while one has had the nerve to completely blackball me and just doesn't respond to anything I send her. The last one actually wrote me a LOR for a previous program. I had the program send him his letter, so all he has to do is literally re-type about 3/4 of a page and e-mail to Interfolio. How would that take more than 3 minutes of his time? Thoughts?

 

[musicaldna]

Just curious how many of your letters of reference seem like they probably will never end up sending it. I have 7 LORs (a lot I admit), but probably 3 won't ever send a letter despite about 3 calls, 3 e-mails, and several Facebook messages each. One keeps promising he'll do it "in the next couple of days," while one has had the nerve to completely blackball me and just doesn't respond to anything I send her. Thoughts?

Profs on Facebook. That's pro.

I guess you can give them a final deadline. If, by then, they don't write it then forget it.

I am myself waiting on 3 though I have yet to remind them.