Quoted: Unsolicited LOR and med school application

[Doodledog]

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Wondering if an unsolicited bad letter or phone call to a medical school has ever resulted in rejection of the applicant.
My situation: I have a former and very powerful supervisor at my workplace who hates me and did the utmost to make me miserable, including unfounded accusations and repeated threats. I did not do anything bad, like embezzling or substance abuse, but this person took a severe dislike to me.
Since then I transferred to another department and location within the same company and I do not see this supervisor anymore. I am hopeful to get a very good letter from my current supervisor.
If my former supervisor finds out that I am applying to medical school and finds out what schools, then makes a phone call or writes a letter about what an awful human being I am, highlighting my weaknesses and casting me in a bad light, would an adcom take this seriously and reject me? This person is not a physician but has strong ties to the medical field and is very powerful within our organization :/

This is, in my opinion, extremely unlikely to occur. Unsolicited letters don't appear in adcom files and although a call could be made to a dean, etc, this is not likely to happen. I have never heard of it, never heard a dean, etc discuss such an unsolicited call/letter, etc.

Good luck!

 

[Goro]

Strongly concur. If such a letter showed up, we'd quickly see that it was motivated by a grudge, and approriately discarded.

This is, in my opinion, extremely unlikely to occur. Unsolicited letters don't appear in adcom files and although a call could be made to a dean, etc, this is not likely to happen. I have never heard of it, never heard a dean, etc discuss such an unsolicited call/letter, etc.

Good luck!