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A bad committee letter worse than no committee letter especially with good indy LORs. No committee letter for a nontrad is nearly a non issue
If you're coming from a school of any significant size that pushes out a lot of medical school applicants, the admissions committees will know to expect a letter from you, and not having one will raise eyebrows. It's not necessarily a deal-breaker - particularly as a non-trad - but it's something that you will be expected to explain, and obviously "they wouldn't write me a good letter" is not going to be an adequate explanation.
I'm guessing at this point it's too late to do anything that might change their evaluation, but I find it somewhat hard to believe that they would provide that general evaluation based only on your GPA. Are you sure there's nothing else that was problematic about your collegiate career? A 3.5-3.6 GPA is completely reasonable, so if that really is, in fact, the only reason that the committee would give you that evaluation, they're really doing you a disservice.
No easy option, unfortunately, as there are clear downsides to both choices. Ultimately I think I would skip the committee letter and cross the bridge of trying to explain why you didn't send one when you get there.
Would highly recommend individual LORs. Premedical committees are often more of a burden than a help, it's ridiculous.
I'd skip the committee letter
I wasn't expecting this and already included the committee letter on my submitted primary which I submitted early. I can't delete this only mark it as not being sent out so I guess I'm totally screwed. Or I could mark it as not being sent out and straight up tell the schools it isn't reflective of me as an applicant, but would that look even worse? I guess it's a lose lose situation, especially after spending the $$$ submitting the primary
Wait OP, you already included the committee letter in your submitted AMCAS primary? Wouldn't that answer your question since there's no way of withdrawing the committee letter and switching to individual letters? Curious to see what @gonnif has to say from a logistical perspective.
If letter has been assigned by the applicant and the letter has been uploaded to AMCAS by the writer, there is nothing to stop the letter from being received by the schools
If you are sure that the committee will not submit the letter, then you can "stop it" by telling the schools it wont be coming BUT if the committee sends it, then it will be sent to the med schools. So tell me to wait a year.,
This is one of the reasons I tell applicants do not assign a letter until after it has been uploaded to AMCAS.