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[Ubu]

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So I just realized that my letter service LOST one of my letters. This is a letter from an undergraduate professor from years and years ago. The professor is gone..I have no way of tracking him down. And now I can't apply to some of my schools because of their strict "we require xx letters from your undergraduate institution." 🙁

 

[Jonkst]

That sucks dude! Did you try getting in touch with your UG school to see if they could track him down... He might still have it on file.

I'll write you a letter if it'll help. Of course it might not mean as much seeing as I don't have a PhD, or even a bachelors...

 

[Dr. Xavier]

Yah, why don't you just ask your undergrad school for a forwarding adress or something, I'm sure they must have someway of getting in contact w/him email or something. I had the similar problem when I need a rec letter from an English professor who left my school, I just went to the english department and they forwarded a letter I wrote to the professor asking for a lor to her. She got it and sent a lor back.

 

[Megalofyia]

Call the medical school that is saying they want so many letters from undergrad. Last year I was applying to some schools that said they wanted a committee letter or so many letters from undergrad, I called and asked if I could waiver this since I graduated a while ago and was a grad student now. The schools said sure and said to use my grad school profs instead.

 

[DarkChild]

schools really arent all that strict about the number of letter you have. yeah its a slight set back, but it probably isnt crippling. carry on as if it never happened.
best of luck.

 

[DarkChild]

schools really arent all that strict about the number of letter you have. yeah its a slight set back, but it probably isnt crippling. carry on as if it never happened.
best of luck.

 

[Ubu]

thanks for all the support and suggestions. unfortunately, i already spoke with the someone in the admissions office at this school (NYMC) and they told me that I MUST have 3 letters from my undergraduate institution. If I had graduated the year before, then they would have accepted letters from my post-bacc professors or from my graduate professors in substitution. I guess they have a cut-off point. 🙁 On the other hand, if anyone who has applied to NYMC before and have gotten out of this requirement, I would love to hear how. In the meantime, I will try to see if the old professor has left a forwarding address...

 

[BerkeleyPremed]

I'm very sorry to hear about your predicament and I extend my full sympathies. This is just another example of UC Berkeley being the bureacratic mess that it is. But like all other things, going to Berkeley has its pains and its pleasures. The upside...you get to benefit from studying under some of the most accomplished professors on Earth and we have many Nobel Prize Winners, Pulitzer Prize Winners, Guggenheim Fellows, MacArthur Fellows, members of the National Academy of the Sciences, etc. The downside...the administration is a bureacratic nightmare and they occasionally lose important documents which studnents need (i.e.: LORs)...Somtimes, this school does really piss me off and reading your post just exacerbated that. You have my best wishes for a successful application process.

 

[thackl]

I'm non-trad and over 6yrs removed from my undergrad. Both prof's I used had since moved on. Use web searches to find yours. It took some time, but that's what I did.

When you do find them, be sure to remind them to use letterhead form your old universtiy. They should be able to get some still, unless they left under poor conditions.