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DRANTWAN

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Got a quick question....When I get a teacher to write me an LOR who am I supposed to give it to? Can I make several copies to send to different med schools? My school doesnt have a service thing. So what do I do?
 
You'll probably want to have the teacher send her letter directly to the schools. That way it'll be confidential and adcoms will take everything that's written as the complete and honest truth. If you want to use a letter service, I hear interfolio.com does that stuff.
 
the problem is im applyiong to ALOT of schools. Should my teacher give me the LOR and I send it in? Who am I supposed to send it to?
 
Okay so the first question is whether or not you want your letters to be confidential. If you do, you must sign a document saying that you waive your right (under the family rights and protection act, I think) to look at the letters. Once that's done, you cannot handle the letters at any point. On the other hand, you can keep them non-confidential, but you must let your recommender know this. For obvious reasons, adcoms tend to trust confidential LORs more than non-confidential ones.
If you're going the confidential route (which I recommend), then look at interfolio.com or search this forum for how to outsource a letter service. My school has an office that does this for me, so I'm not a good resource for how to find someplace that you can use for confidential letter management.
In either case, all schools should detail on their secondaries how to deliver the LOR's. If they don't tell, probably the best idea would be to call and ask. Hope this helps.
 
My school doesn't have a lor service either. I signed up with ReferenceNow/Interfolio. It's pretty easy, but you do have to pay (I think it's ~$20 for a year membership).
You just get your reference writers to send their letters to interfolio, and then you can ask interfolio to send them to any school that needs them.
You also have to pay for each delivery, so it does end up costing a bit more, but it's a LOT easier than bugging your reference writers for copies of their letters every other day when you're applying to a lot of schools.
Also, there is an option to make the letters confidential which is a much safer bet for med schools then sending them yourself, which most med schools prohibit.
 
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