Okay to submit LORs before secondaries?

[Ookluh]

I've been doing an expensive alternative - sending in the secondaries and then the LORs via express service to avoid delaying my application by a couple weeks (my school has a 15-day processing time on regular requests, but 3-day on express).

What I'm wondering is.. am I just wasting money? I thought I remembered reading somewhere that some schools want the secondary before you send in LORs, but I'm hoping I'm mistaken. It would save me a lot of money to send by basic service to all the schools that I haven't finished secondaries for. Can I assume that, unless the school specifically states otherwise, I can send in my LORs as soon as they've told me they received my Primary?

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[Surf Rx]

I think it would be ok to send in your LORs to the schools that don't specifically state not to send them in before a secondary is granted. The only school I can think of off the top of my head that advises against sending your LORs before a secondary is UCSD. I think that it's generally the screener schools who may advise against it.

 

[silverlining1]

I think it would be ok to send in your LORs to the schools that don't specifically state not to send them in before a secondary is granted. The only school I can think of off the top of my head that advises against sending your LORs before a secondary is UCSD. I think that it's generally the screener schools who may advise against it.

UCSF also doesn't want LORs before they request a secondary.

 

[Ookluh]

Okay, I will keep that in mind.. I'll probably just end up looking up every school, which can be time consuming but I guess also safer than potentially getting things lost/confused in the process. Thanks for the information!

 

[MDee]

I sent in my LORs before receiving secondaries. However, I only sent them to the schools which give their secondary to ALL applicants.