Ton of typos in LOR

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My PI just sent me his LOR that he wrote for me and there are quite a lot of grammatical and spelling mistakes throughout the whole thing. Will this reflect poorly on me or diminish the value of the letter?

 

[chemdoctor]

See if you can ask him to fix them without sounding rude. If not, then I’m sorry but I wouldn’t use it.

A friend of mine applied to med school, and went to talk to deans and one of the negatives of his app was that he used a letter that had lots of grammatical errors.

 

[Stagg737]

If the content of the letter is exceptionally strong and speaks to why you would be a fantastic physician, I think the grammatical errors would merely be a poor reflection of the LOR writer and not you as an applicant.

For all the medical schools know, you never saw this letter and had absolutely no clue that it was riddled with errors, so they can't really hold that against you.

They may not hold it against the applicant, but they will definitely question if the letter writer was actually that close to the applicant and wonder why they did not bother to even use spellcheck…

 

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If the content of the letter is exceptionally strong and speaks to why you would be a fantastic physician, I think the grammatical errors would merely be a poor reflection of the LOR writer and not you as an applicant.

For all the medical schools know, you never saw this letter and had absolutely no clue that it was riddled with errors, so they can't really hold that against you.

They may not hold it against the applicant, but they will definitely question if the letter writer was actually that close to the applicant and wonder why they did not bother to even use spellcheck…

Honestly, it is not even that strong of a letter. I'd say it is about average from what I understand so thats a bummer. I know most schools require a letter from a PI if you have one, especially if its post-grad work, as is the case for me.

In any case, I told him I would edit some of the mistakes and it was fine.

 

[LiftingMed]

Don't you have to mark it as non-confidential then or you'll just say it's "confidential"?

 

[Catalystik]

If the content of the letter is exceptionally strong and speaks to why you would be a fantastic physician, I think the grammatical errors would merely be a poor reflection of the LOR writer and not you as an applicant.

For all the medical schools know, you never saw this letter and had absolutely no clue that it was riddled with errors, so they can't really hold that against you.

I agree with this. Non-native English speakers are not always adept at written English. It's not the fault of the letter's subject.

 

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Don't you have to mark it as non-confidential then or you'll just say it's "confidential"?

It was sent to me after it was submitted.