LOR's - electronic vs paper

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Is there really a difference in your opinion? My dentist, who is writing me a referral, recommended that paper will be better since it will be on nicer paper and a letterhead, etc. But AADSAS photocopies or scans and sends them to schools so it wouldn't really matter, I'm thinking. Either way, what do you guys think, paper or electronic.
 
Your dentist can upload his LOR document file, it isn't copy and paste, so I think he can keep the letterhead format and still be able to do it electronically.
 
printer21 said:
Is there really a difference in your opinion? My dentist, who is writing me a referral, recommended that paper will be better since it will be on nicer paper and a letterhead, etc. But AADSAS photocopies or scans and sends them to schools so it wouldn't really matter, I'm thinking. Either way, what do you guys think, paper or electronic.
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electronic is nice because it saves trees and postage. but if your evaluator would rather use paper, it'd probably be in your best interest to do so...he's doing you a favor by writing the evaluation. plus, if he's not very web-savvy, he may screw up the submission (i.e. upload the doc, think it's submitted, but not actually clicking on the submit button) then you're up a creek.
 
808dds said:
electronic is nice because it saves trees and postage. but if your evaluator would rather use paper, it'd probably be in your best interest to do so...he's doing you a favor by writing the evaluation. plus, if he's not very web-savvy, he may screw up the submission (i.e. upload the doc, think it's submitted, but not actually clicking on the submit button) then you're up a creek.
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i actually had a teacher do this on me, it was kind of a pain because he was the person i knew least well, and it was sitting at like "uploaded but not submitted", i forget the exact words, and i didn't know how long to wait to contact him or what exactly to say to tell him he'd messed it up.
 
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