Sequence of LORs?

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I will apply to medical school this summer and am wondering at what point LOR's are sent in. Do they go before your secondary?

Any insight will be appreciated.

Adam
 
aamartin81 said:
I will apply to medical school this summer and am wondering at what point LOR's are sent in. Do they go before your secondary?

Any insight will be appreciated.

Adam

The precise sequence is not that important. LORs should be collected and assembled by your undergrad or postbacc premed advisor/committee office, and not sent directly by you or the recommender to the schools. Once you have completed your AMCAS (primary) application, the schools you indicate will be informed that you are planning to apply, and will set up the appropriate files. Your undergrad/postbacc can send out the letters any time after that, which may be before your secondaries are complete. (In my experience though, it sometimes takes longer to chase down LOR writers and get them to complete than it does to finish up the secondaries.) Anyone else please correct me if I have misstated anything.
 
Law2Doc said:
The precise sequence is not that important. LORs should be collected and assembled by your undergrad or postbacc premed advisor/committee office, and not sent directly by you or the recommender to the schools. Once you have completed your AMCAS (primary) application, the schools you indicate will be informed that you are planning to apply, and will set up the appropriate files. Your undergrad/postbacc can send out the letters any time after that, which may be before your secondaries are complete. (In my experience though, it sometimes takes longer to chase down LOR writers and get them to complete than it does to finish up the secondaries.) Anyone else please correct me if I have misstated anything.

Sounds pretty good to me. The only thing I would add is that some people don't have access to a committee office/premed advisor. And I think in that case, it is ok for reccommender to personally send med school their recs... or just use Interfolio to send your recs.
 
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