Multiple Letters of Update?

[HurricaneKatt]

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I want to send schools a letter of update as I have been doing more since I submitted my application and still have several schools at which my application is "on hold for review at a later date." I want to send updates sooner rather than later so they can see it before they get to reviewing my app again. However, I have some other activities (shadowing with new physicians - some of whom have connections to my top choice school, possible classes I may enroll in this spring, first aid certification, etc), that I haven't done yet but will be doing. I want to include these things in an update, but I don't want to wait until I've done them necessarily either. Is it okay to send multiple letters of update? Say one now and one in a month for the schools I still haven't heard from? I don't want to bombard them, but this cycle hasn't been going well so far and I can use every boost I can get... Thoughts on this?

Also, would it be helpful if I also sent in a new/ updated LOR? My boss is a great letter writer and recently was awarded NP of the Year for our state, so I feel like a letter from her would be very strong.

Sorry if it's been asked before, I'm on my phone and it's super glitchy and a pain to use. :/

 

[HurricaneKatt]

bump?

 

[Catalystik]

I think it would be a mistake to list future plans in such a letter, unless it refers to a class the school requires that you didn't list on the AMCAS transcript.

If your shadowing was weak on the initial application and you have completed a substantial number of new hours, this is worth mentioning. If you had already listed at least 40 shadowing hours, I would hold off on a letter until fall grades are in so that you have other important information to impart.

 

[HurricaneKatt]

I think it would be a mistake to list future plans in such a letter, unless it refers to a class the school requires that you didn't list on the AMCAS transcript.

If your shadowing was weak on the initial application and you have completed a substantial number of new hours, this is worth mentioning. If you had already listed at least 40 shadowing hours, I would hold off on a letter until fall grades are in so that you have other important information to impart.

I am not in school, so I will not have any fall grades to update with.

 

[Catalystik]

Are you engaged in any other ongoing activities that adcomms might find interesting? How many shadowing hours are we talking about (past and new)?

Would you be able to articulate a good reason why each school would be "a perfect fit"? This is something else you could include in such a letter.

 

[Frazier]

...that awkward moment when you get waitlisted right after sending in your best update/interest letter.

Ummm...yea... so... now what? 😛

 

[theherowedeserv]

do we have to send letters of updates to schools?

 

[Irish Football]

do we have to send letters of updates to schools?

No not at all, but if you do have something meaningful to update a school about, then a letter can't hurt.

 

[HurricaneKatt]

Are you engaged in any other ongoing activities that adcomms might find interesting? How many shadowing hours are we talking about (past and new)?

Would you be able to articulate a good reason why each school would be "a perfect fit"? This is something else you could include in such a letter.

I am doing volunteering that I was not doing previously. But I am also hoping to start another volunteering project later as well, doing some shadowing in different specialties, and I am also going to be enrolling in one class this spring as soon as registration opens up, which is why I am wondering if it would Hurt to send a letter of update now, and one later. As opposed to waiting and potentially not getting the chance to send one at all...

Also what about updated LORs? Would/could it be helpful to send in a new LOR? My employer is NP of the Year and I know she would write a strong letter. I didn't get one from her previously because we had just moved to a new office and she was insanely busy. I was on a time crunch and I had a good letter from another coworker. But now thins have slowed down a bit and I'm sure she'd have time to write me a letter. I could then send it to schools... but would that help my app or just be a pain in the butt for the ADCOM?