LOR Predicament

[napoleondynamite]

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Prior to doing any away rotations, I was quite freaked out about obtaining letters...so I asked for THREE letters from my home program. I have since recieved letters from a couple of big names. My question is, will it be offensive to my home program letter writers if I do not submit their letters with my application to my home program? I think that my big name letters could go a long way, but don't anyone thinking, "where is the letter I wrote?!" I probably should have thought this through before shotgun asking for so many letters, but, at the time felt like they were the only letters I would get in radonc! Advice? Thanks!

 

[radoncmonkey]

ERAS limits you to four letters as it is, so assuming you already sent three you will only be able to send one more anyway. If you have not sent any of your letters yet then I would recommned doing so immediatley as many programs have already reviewed applications and some have even sent out their interview invites.

 

[napoleondynamite]

ERAS limits you to four letters as it is, so assuming you already sent three you will only be able to send one more anyway. If you have not sent any of your letters yet then I would recommned doing so immediatley as many programs have already reviewed applications and some have even sent out their interview invites.

Thanks radoncmonkey, I'm aware of all of this. My home program interviews late, so I can still reassign letters. What I'm asking is, is that a bad idea?

 

[Gfunk6]

I was in the same situation as you napoleondynamite. I asked myself this question . . . since the faculty at my home program already knew me well, why should I submit their own LORs? After all, the faculty of my home program already have an opinion about me, but what they would REALLY like to know is what other faculty at outside institutions think.

Using this philosophy, I used my externship LORs when applying to my home program. During interviews, no one complained.

 

[stephew]

one question to ask yourself is: how do you know the letters are good? unless you've seen them, you don't know. you might have a better idea with your program how they feel about you. perhaps not but its just a thought. in the past you could up load any number of LORs and you could mix and match where you sned them out.

i dont know if this has changed. Anyway stuff to think of when you do this.