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LOR Question

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I'mJustCurious

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Sorry if this have been answered many times but I keep getting different answers. I'm graduating a semester early and am taking a gap year, but I still want to ask some of my professors for a letter of recommendation. How should I go about it? Is there a website, like interfolio, where I can hold on to them LOR or should I ask one in paper. I'm just not sure which route is best to hold onto LOR so that I can use in two or three years later. Thanks guys!
 
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I kept my LORs in Interfolio for a little bit under a year. I had to go through the application cycle twice so I did not have to run around asking for recs again.
You can reuse LORs? My only problem is that I am taking a gap year so I will either need to ask one before I leave or email my old professors the year of my application cycle