LOR Character Limit?

[jennywren]

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Like some of you, I'm still anxiously waiting for three of my four LORs to be submitted. Patience, patience! But I got an email this morning from one of my recommenders to say that there's a 3000 word limit; she sent me my rec asking me to edit it down for her. First, I'm assuming she means a 3000 CHARACTER limit, because the letter isn't anywhere near over 3000 words. Second, has anyone heard about this? 3000 characters isn't all that long, but none of my other letter-writers mentioned having a problem...then again, I have no idea what standard length would be. Just thought that if this was a known rule I'd mention it to my other letter-writers.

Any insight is much appreciated! I'm very much in the group that's still working on VMCAS (obviously), so I feel everyone's pain on that front. Good luck, all!

 

[DVMDream]

It is 3000 characters. One of the vets who wrote my recommendation came in to work talking about how she has to write a 3000 character recommendation... I told her I would be glad to trade and she can write the 5000 character PS for me instead. 😀

 

[jennywren]

Thanks so much for the quick reply! My list of things still-to-do is so ridiculously long at this point; of COURSE my newest job is to chop up a really lovely letter about how awesome somebody thinks I am. Of course. Seems a pretty apt metaphor for this whole process, eh? Sigh. VMCAS is trying to break me but I'm not having any of it...yet... 😉

 

[rileyroo]

i had 4 evaluations submitted as well. i know it's been discussed before but i've never come across a convincing answer. i know that CSU allows you to designate the 3 you want to be considered, in their supplemental, but does anyone know what other schools do? i think tigers said OkSt picks 3 random ones. i'm wondering about this b/c i only have 1 DVM...so if one of my schools does the 3 random, i hope the DVM ends up in the random! 😀

 

[IHeartGoldens]

ruh roh. VMCAS told me it would be the first three listed names on the application. I have 3 from Phd/DVM (1-3)and the other two (4-5) are from my compensated work experience and my volunteering work

I'll be calling VMCAS tomorrow to confirm.