Seeing LOR in Scramble

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There's no mechanism via SF Match, either. Even for post-match vacancies processed through SF Match. The only way you can see your letters is if someone sends you a copy, or shows it to you.
 
I was curious b/c some of the scramble advice was to download all your documents so they could be faxed to different programs. So how do you fax your LORs without being able to download them and see them? ...................not that im thinking about the scramble already or anything😀
 
Should it come to the scramble, it would be very handy to have hard copies of your letters. If you're an 4th year US MD, then you're Dean's office will have all your letters on file, and will be able to fax them for you. If you're either a prior grad, or an IMG, then you'll have no such support. 🙁 In that case, having copies of your letters is very handy. How to get them is not clear. You could not waive your rights to see your letters and ask your writers for copies. If you're currently located at a program (doing research, for example), and if you applied there, you could ask them for a copy (but if you waived your right, its unclear to me if they can give them to you).
 
aProgDirector said:
Should it come to the scramble, it would be very handy to have hard copies of your letters. If you're an 4th year US MD, then you're Dean's office will have all your letters on file, and will be able to fax them for you. If you're either a prior grad, or an IMG, then you'll have no such support. 🙁 In that case, having copies of your letters is very handy. How to get them is not clear. You could not waive your rights to see your letters and ask your writers for copies. If you're currently located at a program (doing research, for example), and if you applied there, you could ask them for a copy (but if you waived your right, its unclear to me if they can give them to you).
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Anyone who is/was a prior grad or IMG have any thoughts or insight as to what to do if youve waived ur right to see your letters. I am a prior US grad but im being sponsored by my medical schools deans office so mabey they could help me as they would a senior student. I dunno im guessing. But what do say IMGs do??
 
LilJon said:
Anyone who is/was a prior grad or IMG have any thoughts or insight as to what to do if youve waived ur right to see your letters. I am a prior US grad but im being sponsored by my medical schools deans office so mabey they could help me as they would a senior student. I dunno im guessing. But what do say IMGs do??
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I have had all of my LOR writers send copies to my school, so if necessary, I can have them available to me as necessary. This, of course, means I would waive my right to see them God forbid I had to scramble.

I suppose I could have my school fax them where I want them to go and not waive my right, but I would rather put it in my hands if I was in the unfortunate position of having to scramble.
 
Abram Hoffer said:
I have had all of my LOR writers send copies to my school, so if necessary, I can have them available to me as necessary. This, of course, means I would waive my right to see them God forbid I had to scramble.

I suppose I could have my school fax them where I want them to go and not waive my right, but I would rather put it in my hands if I was in the unfortunate position of having to scramble.
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Actually, it means you WOULDN'T waive your right to see them.

Waiving your right to see them means that you decline that right, and therefore won't see them.
 
The issue here turns on *why* people value waiving the right to see your letters.

I think the importance of waiving is to prove you didn't cherry-pick your references, or shape the tone your recommender took, or write the letter yourself, or have any knowledge of what they said about you until that information was beamed across the Inter-Web to all your designated programs. It's to make a recommendation an honest reflection of the recommender's take on your ability to be a resident.

If you see the letters after the fact (that is, after uploading them to ERAS)-- meh. The integrity of the recommendation process is still intact.

If you scramble, you do so in such a short time frame that it's obviously impossible for you to have shaped the tone of your references. AProgDirector should correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think many PDs would mind if you glance through your LORs while you're desperately faxing them around.
 
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