Starting to worry

[reece05]

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Hi- I am a non trad applicant and having been doing research for over a year now.... I asked the lead researcher in the beginning of June for a LOR... Still hasn't written it and is supposedly in Africa until next week... My secondaries are complete except for this LOR...
I dont know what I should do....I completed everything early and I feel this is really going to hurt me getting interviews by its getting late. Any thoughts?

I've contacted both her and another supervisor at the hospital where I worked continually for about a month now

 

[olecranon4]

Hi- I am a non trad applicant and having been doing research for over a year now.... I asked the lead researcher in the beginning of June for a LOR... Still hasn't written it and is supposedly in Africa until next week... My secondaries are complete except for this LOR...
I dont know what I should do....I completed everything early and I feel this is really going to hurt me getting interviews by its getting late. Any thoughts?

I've contacted both her and another supervisor at the hospital where I worked continually for about a month now

... And?

A research letter isn't required at most schools. Just submit without it then update when you get it in.

 

[reece05]

Right....but it is also one of my main letters/ and well known person/ institution in my area.... I don't want to be complete and then the committee reviews my app before the letter is submitted.... Or am I just over thinking this?

 

[NickNaylor]

Well, did you hear back from either person you contacted? Obviously you want to get the LOR if at all possible, but there's definitely a point of diminishing returns here. If he/she can't get the letter to you in the next couple of weeks then I would just move forward.

(sent from my phone)

 

[olecranon4]

Right....but it is also one of my main letters/ and well known person/ institution in my area.... I don't want to be complete and then the committee reviews my app before the letter is submitted.... Or am I just over thinking this?

I think you're overthinking your problem and underthinking the question Nick and I asked you.

 

[reece05]

Yes- she is suppose to be back this week... Emailed and phoned yesterday with no response-- will wait it out until next week, and if it's not written I will take them off for now.

 

[reece05]

No one Has a definite date to when she will return, since she's been in Africa since the beginning of July-- and was suppose to be back August 1.... I've been back and forth with the office, but they cant give me a definitive answer when she comes back/ when my LOR will be finished

 

[NickNaylor]

No one Has a definite date to when she will return, since she's been in Africa since the beginning of July-- and was suppose to be back August 1.... I've been back and forth with the office, but they cant give me a definitive answer when she comes back/ when my LOR will be finished

In that case it sounds like she will be back soon, so I would just hold out. If you're looking for an arbitrary deadline, though, I would say that after September 15 you move forward. It's starting to get to the later side of things at that point.

(sent from my phone)

 

[Praefectus]

You can be subtle with reminding her. Give her a gift and tell her thanks, and she'll probably get embarrassed enough to send it in as soon as possible.