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Discussion in 'Pre-Dental' started by sl2obel2ts, May 8, 2008.

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  1. sl2obel2ts

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    I am finally getting my US citizenship, ceremony on 20th of May, so I will apply to dental school on 5/21. I am taking DAT on 6/30. The problem is... I do not have enough letters... I have following letters in my letter service, 1 dentist, 1 science, 2 research and 1 humanities. I still lack 1 science letter. I have asked my science prof january 2008, but he still has not sent it in. I had my GSI draft it and he even told me that he gave it to my prof, but still nothing for 3 weeks. I think right now is totally inappropriate time to ask my prof to send the letter because he is busy with writing final exams and grading (he lectures 700 students). I gave him a deadline of may 15th, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

    so, what I wanna know is when the latest time would be to send the letter to aadsas (I am sending it to letter service then forwarding it to aadsas just in case I don't get in this cycle). How long does it take AADSAS to process the letter of rec received by mail?
     
    #1 sl2obel2ts, May 8, 2008
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  2. jigabodo

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    Well, you can try bypassing AADSAS and send additional copies of those LOR straight to schools.

    It should work about 80% of the times, since most schools don't require them to be sent through AADSAS. It should speed up the whole process by 2-3 weeks or so.
     
    #2 jigabodo, May 8, 2008
  3. Bruinlove

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    I guess you are from UCB.
    I feel you because I was in a same situation until this morning. I would just ask him politely. I believe he would just change the draft a little and sign it. So it shouldn't take that long.
     
    #3 Bruinlove, May 8, 2008
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