Sending letter of REC to specific school

[noflag]

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Hey all,

So my school is doing a committee packet but my close family friend (basically second father) wants to write me a letter for a specific school in which he completed all of his medical training.

How would I go about sending this letter? Can I send a letter through the AMCAS system for a specific school even though I have a committee letter as well? Or should I just mail it directly to the school

 

[Redpancreas]

So if I recall, when you add schools via AMCAS, for each school you add, you must check which LORs you wish to send schools. I remember this being tedious but inguess it works to your advantage here.

 

[The Real SVB]

You add the letter through AMCAS and submit it to AMCAS and only pick that one school as a recipient for that letter. Assign your committee letter to all schools and leave that letter out.

 

[Rainbow Zebra]

Hey all,

So my school is doing a committee packet but my close family friend (basically second father) wants to write me a letter for a specific school in which he completed all of his medical training.

How would I go about sending this letter? Can I send a letter through the AMCAS system for a specific school even though I have a committee letter as well? Or should I just mail it directly to the school

So what can this guy say about your academic or research experience? This letter may be thrown in the trash - alum don't have any say in the process unless they are on the admin committee interviewer list. Think twice about this , it is like your dad saying how wonderful you are. Nobody cares about a LOR from non academic/work folks, and may backfire on you.

 

[The Real SVB]

Think twice about this , it is like your dad saying how wonderful you are. Nobody cares about a LOR from non academic/work folks, and may backfire on you.

Nothing tells us a positive LOR can become a negative thing. Most probably, it's just neutral and doesn't add anything.

 

[Glandzburg]

Nothing tells us a positive LOR can become a negative thing. Most probably, it's just neutral and doesn't add anything.

Adcoms on this site have told us that luke-warm letters of rec can be bad. I would assume that would include letters from family friends. Seems like it would come off as application padding.

 

[The Real SVB]

Adcoms on this site have told us that luke-warm letters of rec can be bad. I would assume that would include letters from family friends. Seems like it would come off as application padding.

Ah, I've only ever read the neutral perspective. Sampling bias

 

[noflag]

The letter writer has very strong ties to the school and it's important for him to do this so I'm not going to say no haha. I don't think it will hurt me in any way but probably won't help either. I just know it means a lot to him to write it so it's there.

Thanks everyone for the help