question, suppose I won't have all my LORs (particularly the ENT letters) until november. will this negatively impact my applications significantly?
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oto invites without letters?
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yes. the vast majority of programs will not invite you until your app is complete. By november, more than 2/3 of programs are done handing out invites, so i would do anything, ANYTHING, to get those letters in earlier. It's only september, how could it possibly take two whole months to get them?
And yes, there are a handful of programs that will invite based on stats alone. but most wont.
I asked for the letter 7 weeks ago. So far no letter and no response to a gentle email reminder. So my next step is to call next week and attempt to speak in person (not always easy to reach attending via phone as you well know). I can only assume it's not written and we're back at ground zero. In other words, another 7 weeks... I feel awful about it already. I just asked another attending but I think the best he can do is atleast a month.
thats what i did. definitely bug the secretary (nicely)
so If I'm to ask a new person, and they ask me "when do you need it by?"
What's a nice way of saying yesterday?
What's a nice way of saying yesterday?
I guess when they ask when you need it, you could just say "as soon as you can, if possible" and try to sincerely apologize for asking at the last minute. I suppose there's no easy way. If that doesn't work, I would emphasize having it submitted by the end of september.
I don't know your circumstances, but it doesn't take a month to write a recommendation letter. I've written and reviewed letters before, and I know this because it takes me an afternoon, 2 days tops to write a letter. After reading many letters, I have come to the conclusion that many of them are crap and couldn't possibly take more than 5 minutes to write.
So, you may want to consider the possibility that the attending doesn't feel like he or she can honestly write you a good letter of recommendation...hence the delay.
