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[medical22]

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I am not ahead in the game like most of you, so I would appreciate if you could help me out a little. I will probably be getting a letter from my pre-med advisory committee instead of individual letters. When will I have to send in that letter? Is it after I submit my AMCAS application and receive the secondary applications? Do they send it in directly to each school or give it to me? I want to ask them only once so should I give them a list of the schools I'm applying to? But they cannot send the letters until I receive the sec. application, right? Please tell me how it works in detail. Thanks!

 

[kris]

Here's how it worked at my school:

1) They sent the letter directly to the med school in support of my secondary app. Med schools don't want you to tamper! 😉

2) Since secondaries can come in at all different times, we just had a form to fill out with spaces for additional letter requests. So you might fill out 6 addresses corresponding to secondary apps you'vee received, and then two weeks later you might drop by to add another school to the list.


But really, I'd just call your pre-med office Monday and ask them how they do it. They'll be the best source of info since each school's procedures probably vary a little. And be prepared to pay for the letter service.

 

[Popoy]

Originally posted by medical22:
•I am not ahead in the game like most of you, so I would appreciate if you could help me out a little. I will probably be getting a letter from my pre-med advisory committee instead of individual letters. When will I have to send in that letter? Is it after I submit my AMCAS application and receive the secondary applications? Do they send it in directly to each school or give it to me? I want to ask them only once so should I give them a list of the schools I'm applying to? But they cannot send the letters until I receive the sec. application, right? Please tell me how it works in detail. Thanks!•

Send it along with your secondaries.

The school usually sends it directly to the med schools..... There is a process....For example, in UCDavis they told us to give them a manila folder with our SS# and then the individual school with three first class stamps.

You do this for each individual school.

So ask the committee letter service as to what the procedures are....

 

[grasshopper]

As a point of moderate interest (and annoyance to me), my school charges for each place you want to have it sent. They claim that they're doing us an extraordinary service and encourage us to pay extra so that they will process the request more quickly, even if we aren't anywhere near the deadline. You might check, medical22, to see if your school charges. Just out of curiousity, do other people's schools charge? Have you guys found your pre-med offices in general to be helpful?

 

[Hopkins2010]

Originally posted by grasshopper:
•As a point of moderate interest (and annoyance to me), my school charges for each place you want to have it sent. They claim that they're doing us an extraordinary service and encourage us to pay extra so that they will process the request more quickly, even if we aren't anywhere near the deadline. You might check, medical22, to see if your school charges. Just out of curiousity, do other people's schools charge? Have you guys found your pre-med offices in general to be helpful?•

My school charges $2 for each school after the 10th school I believe.

 

[Aoshi]

My school charges $200 flat rate...so I decided to not take advantage of their "generosity" and send in my own letter. Plus, the Dean of Admissions at NYU told me most Ad committees hate those composite letters.

 

[Hopkins2010]

Originally posted by Aoshi:
•My school charges $200 flat rate...so I decided to not take advantage of their "generosity" and send in my own letter. Plus, the Dean of Admissions at NYU told me most Ad committees hate those composite letters.•

Thats odd, according to alot of med school websites they prefer the committee letters.

I have also heard that if your school has a committee and you dont use it, that the adcomm will think suspiciously about it and ask you why.

 

[Popoy]

Originally posted by grasshopper:
•As a point of moderate interest (and annoyance to me), my school charges for each place you want to have it sent. They claim that they're doing us an extraordinary service and encourage us to pay extra so that they will process the request more quickly, even if we aren't anywhere near the deadline. You might check, medical22, to see if your school charges. Just out of curiousity, do other people's schools charge? Have you guys found your pre-med offices in general to be helpful?•

There's a flat rate at UCDavis that goes up every year.... Last time I checked it was $125 and that's just to keep your file in their office. The stamps and folders are up to you to pay, then they process it.

I believe, also, that once you've applied you'd have to pay extra every year you want the file to remain open... that's if you don't get accepted....

 

[sandflea]

i'd have to agree with baylor21, aoshi. many adcoms actually *require* you to use the premed committee letter if your school offers one, and if you choose not to, you must give a convincing reason why.

for the record, my college doesn't charge anything to send out committee letters. i didn't realize that some schools did! ouch!