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Hey everyone...I was checking the status of my rec packets on the Emory Career Center's database, and before it logged me in, this notification page (or "disclaimer" as the page was titled) came up. I'm attaching it and have highlighted in red some of the points of interest...
***BEGIN NOTICE****
Dear Emory Pre-Med Student:
Beginning with the 2005 applicant pool, letters of evaluation will now be sent electronically to participating medical schools. Virtual Evals, the new transfer and retrieval system, allows medical schools to receive and download your letters as a part of the application process. This new system will allow for quicker transfer and receipt of your letters. Currently, 108 of the 126 medical schools in the country are participating in this new system. Virtual Evals only pertains to students applying to allopathic medical programs (M.D. programs).
As with our previous system, you will collect your letters in the same fashion by having your evaluators send their letters by mail to The Career Center. The Career Center will not accept letters electronically. You will continue to make all requests through the Pre-Professional Database. When identifying which letters you want to send, you will now be restricted to a selection of four letters. This is the policy of participating medical schools. All medical schools participating in Virtual Evals will receive the same four letters. Your four letters will be sent in PDF format to the schools that you request through the Pre-Professional Database. It is important that your file is complete and all letters have been received in our office before you make your request.
When our office has completed your request, you will receive an automatic email informing you that your letters have been posted on the Virtual Evals website for schools to view. Only participating medical schools will have access to view your letters. You are encouraged to follow-up with each school to ensure that they have viewed your letters. In the event medical schools request additional letters from you, you will simply make that request through the Database, and our office will send the new letters as we have traditionally done via postal mail. There is no additional cost to applicants for the new Virtual Evals service. All current fees shall remain the same: $30 to establish your file (first 10 schools included) and $5.00 for each additional school.
Emory joins other undergraduate institutions in this exciting, new technology developed by Duke University, including Yale, MIT, Brigham Young, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Virginia Commonwealth, Baylor and Wake Forest, to name a few.
As always, if you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact our office at 404-727-6211 or you can ask a question through the Pre-Professional Database.
Best wishes for a successful application cycle!
Charles N. Collier, Jr., Associate Director
Pre-professional Services
Emory University Career Center
****END NOTICE****
Ummm....has anyone else heard about this new system up until now? It makes me nervous because not one medical school has mentioned the Virtual Evals system in their application process for this cycle and it seems kind of weird that it would only become introduced now, after some of us have already begun to submit secondaries....and I'm also not fond of the policy that ALL schools have to see the same four letters. I'm also confused because I already made a rec request for Northwestern for only three....so I hope that those three don't get tagged as the letters I'm dependent on. I can see how it could be a convenient system (reducing snail mail dependence!) but augh I'm more confused now....if anyone else knows anything useful about this system please post!
***BEGIN NOTICE****
Dear Emory Pre-Med Student:
Beginning with the 2005 applicant pool, letters of evaluation will now be sent electronically to participating medical schools. Virtual Evals, the new transfer and retrieval system, allows medical schools to receive and download your letters as a part of the application process. This new system will allow for quicker transfer and receipt of your letters. Currently, 108 of the 126 medical schools in the country are participating in this new system. Virtual Evals only pertains to students applying to allopathic medical programs (M.D. programs).
As with our previous system, you will collect your letters in the same fashion by having your evaluators send their letters by mail to The Career Center. The Career Center will not accept letters electronically. You will continue to make all requests through the Pre-Professional Database. When identifying which letters you want to send, you will now be restricted to a selection of four letters. This is the policy of participating medical schools. All medical schools participating in Virtual Evals will receive the same four letters. Your four letters will be sent in PDF format to the schools that you request through the Pre-Professional Database. It is important that your file is complete and all letters have been received in our office before you make your request.
When our office has completed your request, you will receive an automatic email informing you that your letters have been posted on the Virtual Evals website for schools to view. Only participating medical schools will have access to view your letters. You are encouraged to follow-up with each school to ensure that they have viewed your letters. In the event medical schools request additional letters from you, you will simply make that request through the Database, and our office will send the new letters as we have traditionally done via postal mail. There is no additional cost to applicants for the new Virtual Evals service. All current fees shall remain the same: $30 to establish your file (first 10 schools included) and $5.00 for each additional school.
Emory joins other undergraduate institutions in this exciting, new technology developed by Duke University, including Yale, MIT, Brigham Young, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Virginia Commonwealth, Baylor and Wake Forest, to name a few.
As always, if you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact our office at 404-727-6211 or you can ask a question through the Pre-Professional Database.
Best wishes for a successful application cycle!
Charles N. Collier, Jr., Associate Director
Pre-professional Services
Emory University Career Center
****END NOTICE****
Ummm....has anyone else heard about this new system up until now? It makes me nervous because not one medical school has mentioned the Virtual Evals system in their application process for this cycle and it seems kind of weird that it would only become introduced now, after some of us have already begun to submit secondaries....and I'm also not fond of the policy that ALL schools have to see the same four letters. I'm also confused because I already made a rec request for Northwestern for only three....so I hope that those three don't get tagged as the letters I'm dependent on. I can see how it could be a convenient system (reducing snail mail dependence!) but augh I'm more confused now....if anyone else knows anything useful about this system please post!
