Submit all letters or committee letter only?

[mnasir94]

This question has been asked in various formats before but I am still not 100% sure I am clear on my understanding of some medical college letter requirements.

Some will mention that they would like a committee letter OR other letters from individuals.

This is okay -- but my school does not offer a 'composite' committee letter with further enclosures/attachments. As such; I am curious to ask: If a school mentions this, would you recommend that I send my committee letter and some individual letters as well?

I am not sure how to go about this since it doesn't seem very clear to me.

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[G.NA]

That's weird..every school that has a committee that i know of sends the committee letter and attaches the other LORs. why doesn't your school do this?
do both. committee letters are very different from your individual letters

 

[gyngyn]

Too many letters: With the increase of schools and applicants in the past 5--10 years, many schools are becoming strict of the number of letters they want and list these in their requirements. I presume everyone not only reads the MSAR but checks the website for each and every school that they apply to for this as well as all other requirements. If a school says 4 letters max and you send 7, which 4 wind up in the system? You cant control this and you wont know which letters will then be seen by the adcom. You may have a school that puts all 7 letters in so which are read first? Which adcom member may see that there letters over the max and sees this applicant cant even follow a guideline?

You would be found guilty of a false presumption, in the first case, and completely correct in the second!

 

[dermacat]

In response to G.NA, my undergrad institution did not even have the option for a committee letter, and it is one of the biggest schools in Texas. I found it very shocking as well when I found out that every other school not only has a committee letter written but normally also includes your additional letters as attachments.

What I did was attach 3 individual letters to my TMDSAS (Texas schools) application, and then followed up with each school individually to find out how many additional letters they accept that I could send directly. InterFolio was a life-saver in this regard. Some schools encouraged sending as many as I have, others restricted sending additional letters only after receiving an interview invitation, and some didn't want any additional letters to be sent at all