to or to not use committee LOR

[Recon_13999]

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alright guys so i'm in sort of a conundrum here:

common advice here on SDN is to use committee letter if available; my school has one, and I have 2 science/1 non-science letters. I turned in both of these to my committee a few days back.

When going to speak with the pre-health adviser, she told me I should have submitted everything by mid-march to be guaranteed a committee interview. My reason for not doing this was that 2 of my rec letters are from profs who I took this last spring semester, and I didn't feel comfortable asking for one in late feb, as that would be too little time to give them something to write about.

So I asked how they would compose the letter without an interview... and she said that they'd put maybe a paragraph saying they "support me for medical admission blah blah blah" (her EXACT words), and then say "attached are his LORs."

seems like this could be viewed extremely negatively by AdComs, especially if they get detailed committee letters from other applicants from my school.

So tl;dr: poor committee letter paragraph with regular LORs attached, or use regular LORs without using committee?

Thanks in advance

 

[eternelle]

So what you're saying is there's still a possibility that you could get an interview? That might be worth waiting for, if it's an option. But then they'll probably write the committee letter after they write everyone else's...

I think I'd go about this by first looking at the letter requirements for your school list. It might be possible to send just your LORs to schools that don't require a committee letter, and send the committee letter only to schools that require it, depending on how your school does things. An impersonal committee letter probably won't help you.