LOR question

[PKP719]

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Ok ,
I have to get some LOR from various professors b/c med school commitee clowns ask for them. I am applying to min of 6 or 7 schools so far for the fall 2006 year. How do the professors handle this ? Do they make like 6 or 7 copies of the same letter but switch the name from x university to another x university ? Or should I be telling them in advance that " hey , I am applying to several schools and I would like to use your letter for other schools as well" ..so that they do make duplicates. Kinda unsure about how this process goes ..
How do they handle this ?

 

[lulubean]

Your undergrad insitution should have either a premed committee or a letter of rec service. Either way you have your profs write general letters (e.g. Dear Admissions Committee...) and send them one of these places. The letter of rec services (like at my school) will put all the letters together and send them to various schools. A premed committee will read your letters of rec and write one letter of their own that they will send out to medical schools. Hope that helps. Regardless, its a lot to ask profs to send/write letters to multiple schools. The schools are used to getting letters generally adressing the admissions committee. Hope that helps!

 

[oniwindu]

Don't think they'll need to write specially addressed LORs to each medical school you are applying to...that would be too confusing for them and for you. Your professors will usually write their letters addressed as "To Whom this May Concern" because most undergrad schools will have a letter/recommendation service for their students where they will confidentially store all of your recommendations. (My undergrad school did this.) When it came time for my pre-health committee/advisor to write a cover letter, I just referred him to my recommendation file at our school's Career Office once all of my recommendations had come in, and it worked perfectly that way.

It's just a hassle for you and for your profs to notify them each time you receive a secondary and ask them to address their letters to a specific school. At any rate, if your school does not offer you a filing service for your recommendations, you can use interfolio.com. People on this forum have mentioned it (you can do a search for it). The key is to waive your rights to view the recommendations (because then medical schools can trust that what the profs write are honest) and to file your recs in one place. Makes sending them out to the medical school a LOT easier.

Hope this helps.