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[DrDwayneJohnson]

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[DrDwayneJohnson]

Its not your wordiness but your clarity that I am having trouble with: answer below true or false

1) I presume you mean letter writers are solely submitting letters to the UG Committee, who in turn will now reload the Committee letter w/packet?
2) Please confirm that none of your letter writers are submitting directly to AMCAS or to Interfolio
3) Please confirm that you are not submitting letters from last year from Interfolio to AMCAS

If the answer is true to all of the above then you have nothing to worry about

1) True
2) True
3) True, but my pre-med advisor submitted my packet with a letter from last year. Once the new letter is received, (s)he will replace the old letter in my packet with the new one and resubmit to AMCAS from VirtualEval. The reasoning was that schools won't download my packet until July or August.

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

The schools will get the packet a day after they are loaded by your premed advisor. Your old letters will be there. I would have the advisor contact AMCAS and see if this can be fixed. Did you assign letters to schools yet?

https://aamc-orange.global.ssl.fast...2018_amcas_instruction_manual_web.pdf#page=63
Once a letter is received by AMCAS it cannot be deleted or edited by any party.
Any letters that follow an original letter with the same AMCAS Letter ID will be
appended to the original letter and sent to all medical schools to which the letter is
designated.

Yes. By the looks of it on the manual, anything else sent will be appended. If that is the case, then will all five letters be attached at the end?

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

No, its a single letter packet. Number of letters in a committee letter do not matter.

Lets clear this up since applicants confuse it all the time: You follow one of the following

If you are using a committee letter, the requirements are set by the undergraduate institution
OR
If you are sending in individual letters, the requirements are set by each medical school

You do not need to follow the requirements for individual letters if you are using a committee letter.
For a committee letter you follow the policy of your own undergraduate institution

Whoops, definitely slipped up earlier. My apologies. The letters are sent to the committee and then the compiled packet is sent to AMCAS without a committee letter for reapplicants. The committee only consolidates the letters for us and then sends them off, so I have to follow the individual letter guidelines now. Or at least I think I do.

 

[DrDwayneJohnson]

No, you are still a single packet = single letter = generally UG school requirements. The rule of thumb of 2 science/1 non science remains

Committee Letter or Letter Packet, where you follow the requirements of the UG institution and it is acceptable by virtually all medical schools
OR
Individual Letters , where you follow the requirements of each individual medical school

The number of letters in a letter packet is immaterial, It is not under the requirements of individual letters

Section 6 of the AMCAS® application: Letters of Evaluation
Letter Types

AMCAS accepts three different types of letters. Each letter type is equivalent to one letter entry.
Committee Letter: A letter authored by a pre-health committee or pre-health advisor and intended to represent your institution’s evaluation of you. A Committee Letter may or may not include additional letters written in support of your application. This is sometimes called a Composite Letter.
Letter Packet: A packet or set of letters assembled and distributed by your institution, often by the institution’s career center. A Letter Packet may include a cover sheet from your pre-health committee or advisor. However, unlike to a Committee Letter, a Letter Packet does not include an evaluative letter from your pre-health committee or advisor.
Individual Letter: A letter written by, and representing, a single letter author. If you have already included an Individual Letter within either a Committee Letter or a Letter Packet, do not add a separate entry for that letter.

Thank you for clearing that up! The letter in question is one of my science letters, so I'm hoping they see the appended, updated version. If not, then hopefully they accept the older one. Either way, I don't think it will be an absolute make or break for my application (I hope not, anyway).