Submitting an extra LOR

[Emmett Brown]

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ERAS only allows 4 letters to be assigned. But some residency programs accept (and some even want) extra letter of recommendations above and beyond the 4 allowed by ERAS. (example: mentor if significant research was done, and the program already requires 3 letters + a chair letter).

Option 1) have the extra letter snail-mailed or e-mailed.

Option 2) After we see the program downloaded the first 4 LOR, and then we assign a different one in its place - will the program now have all 5 letters once they re-synch w/ ERAS? Is this how to do it?

Thanks.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

ERAS only allows 4 letters to be assigned. But some residency programs accept (and some even want) extra letter of recommendations above and beyond the 4 allowed by ERAS. (example: mentor if significant research was done, and the program already requires 3 letters + a chair letter).

If a program requests a research mentor letter, I think that would be included in the 3 Letters. Hence, you'd have 2 clinical LOR's, the research mentor, and the chair letter. But, regardless, if you're CERTAIN that the program wants more than 4 letters (which I am having trouble believing)...

Option 1) have the extra letter snail-mailed or e-mailed.

Option 2) After we see the program downloaded the first 4 LOR, and then we assign a different one in its place - will the program now have all 5 letters once they re-synch w/ ERAS? Is this how to do it?

Thanks.

I would use option #2, and you are correct that this is what happens. But again, I remain somewhat skeptical that programs really want more than 4 LOR's.