Mistake on LOR entry. Can I delete and re-add a LOR on a submitted AMCAS?

[Imogen]

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I'm confused about the AMCAS letters of evaluation rules and after calling in this morning and being met with an entirely unhelpful representative, I decided someone on here might have an answer for me.

I have 6 letter entries created so far. None have been sent to AMCAS yet from my Interfolio account. I made a mistake on 3 of the letter entries (for professor recommendations) in that I forgot to include the institution name and author contact info.

I called AMCAS because I wanted to delete the current 3 entries and then re-create them, this time including the institution name and contact stuff. The woman I spoke with told me that I can't do this because my application is already submitted, told me forgetting the institution name didn't matter, but then was like "well, not really." Obviously, this was not comforting.

It was my understanding that letter entries could be deleted, and that letters could be added and assigned to schools at anytime after submission. I thought that you could only have a total of 10 letter entries created at any time though. Is my understanding incorrect? Also, do you guys think forgetting to include the institution name and contact info is a huge deal? These are all professors from my undergrad institution and the letters are titled "Recommendation from Professor ____". I just feel really dumb for forgetting to write that stuff in.

 

[DAPI]

After submission I do not believe you can delete a letter, but what you can do is create three new letter spots in amcas with the correct information and assign your interfolio letters to those new letter spots. This would leave you with thee spots that have been waisted, but if you only plan on using those 6 letters it would be fine. Just don't assign those empty letters to any schools and use the 6 correct letters.

 

[MeGoodManIThink]

So when adding LORs, I accidently added the same letter or recc twice and after my writer submitted it, it allowed me to merge the two reccs...it was actually quite simple..i clicked on the letter and it said merge with existing letter and boom it was done

sorry I dont remember specific steps, but I remember all I did was click on the submitted letter

fyi didnt use interfolio or any of that fancy stuff

gl