Wait... can i just send lor's to myself?

[kazza2ud]

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Yes it's a ridiculous idea, but I mean, what is stopping me from sending my interfolio lor's to myself? My delivery history is private right?

 

[witness23]

and then what?

 

[146233]

What an ethically sound way to start your career in medicine. Interfolio isn't stupid; they've thought of that.

 

[kazza2ud]

and then what?

and then see if any of them are weak or badly written

 

[BlueElmo]

But where would you send it to, your home address or friend's address? I think Interfolio would already have thought of that.

 

[kazza2ud]

What an ethically sound way to start your career in medicine. Interfolio isn't stupid; they've thought of that.

Flaming aside, where is the restriction, because I started a delivery but haven't finalized it, and so far there's no warning or anything. I'm sure there must be some restriction but I'm just wondering what it is.

 

[BlueElmo]

Flaming aside, where is the restriction, because I started a delivery but haven't finalized it, and so far there's no warning or anything. I'm sure there must be some restriction but I'm just wondering what it is.

Well, then do it and see what happens. How should we know? We aren't Interfolio employees.

 

[Kaustikos]

Flaming aside, where is the restriction, because I started a delivery but haven't finalized it, and so far there's no warning or anything. I'm sure there must be some restriction but I'm just wondering what it is.

A filter system prohibiting letters you mark as waiving your rights to accessing them to be sent to your own address?🙄

 

[ChubbyChaser]

I vote...you try it, be the guinea pig, and report back to us

 

[tdittyx2x3]

Um what if it was an address that you had access to and it wasn't anywhere on your interfolio account or your amcas? Also, fake name on that guy.

I bet it works.

 

[Kaustikos]

Um what if it was an address that you had access to and it wasn't anywhere on your interfolio account or your amcas? Also, fake name on that guy.

I bet it works.

Sure
Go ahead then👍

 

[BTC]

You really don't have much to lose. I say go for it.

 

[BlueElmo]

You really don't have much to lose. I say go for it.

Unless Interfolio finds out and bans him forever.

 

[circulus vitios]

Open a P.O. box under a fake name, or have a friend do it for you.

 

[ami1983]

Um what if it was an address that you had access to and it wasn't anywhere on your interfolio account or your amcas? Also, fake name on that guy.

I bet it works.

I had a friend do it 2 years ago, she sent it to a family members house that was a professor in another city. She didnt burst into flames, either.

 

[RoadRunner17]

I thought that they only send them to verified addresses, like for the medical schools.

 

[atomi]

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[qmcat]

I thought that they only send them to verified addresses, like for the medical schools.

You have the option to type in an address. I had to do this for some D.O. schools that were not in the system.

 

[circulus vitios]

Mail fraud. Up to 20 years. Nice.

Apparently they ask for photo ID anyways. If it were me (and I wanted to look at my LORs), I'd just use a friend's address.

 

[cpants]

Not mail fraud, per say.

Opening a PO Box in a fake name is definitely mail fraud. There is nothing illegal about receiving or sending mail to an alias though. If I were gonna do it, I would make up some internship or something (Student Doctor Network Summer Internship Committee, PO Box 555, etc.), and then just collect it from the PO Box. You shouldn't do it because it's wrong though.

BTW, it's "per se".

 

[alwaysaangel]

Pretty sure you can't do this.

Read their explanation of service. They've thought of this, they are not stupid. Most school letter services (and so I'm guessing interfolio as well) will only send your LORs to academic institutions, they won't send it to anything else (I wanted to use one for a job and couldn't even get it sent there).

So no, you probably can't, and you probably shouldn't try it.

 

[tncekm]

Yeah... IMO, if there are any letter writers you're worried enough about to actually want to see if their letters are "weak", I'd suggest you probably shouldn't have had them write your letters 😀

Ethics... they're easy to bend, but just don't start. IMO it's a bit of a slippery slope. My professors all offered to send my letters to me, and I actually had to tell them "no thanks". It would have been akward reading them, IMO.

 

[witness23]

okay this is lame. even if you did this, could you brag to people and tell them a story? it's like.... if you could get with jessica alba, but you couldn't ever tell anyone in the world that you did, would it be worth it? not for my attention-wh*re self.

here are some alternatives that would make for great stories as well.

1. identify yourself as a 16 year old female. invite your LOR writer to gmail. start a chat. tell him some ambiguous things, like "i have never done it before", and ask him if "it hurts". tell him that you want to meet him in person at your parents shore house. tell him to bring a sample LOR that he has written recently. send chat transcript to dateline NBC.
2. start a new medical school w/ an earlier secondary date. you might make a lot of money with this idea. invite applicants with higher stats than you. jump them
3. okay i got tired of writing