Wait to submit app?

[DrHugs]

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I have my application completely ready to submit, but I am waiting to receive an LOR from a prof. I already have the letter, but it is two years old and I am waiting for her to update it. I asked her, but she doesn't know when he will have it ready. It could be one day or it could be two weeks.

Should I submit with the old letter or wait for the new one?

 

[GopherMD]

Submit now without the old letter and send in the new letter when you get it.

 

[RyanRt]

You should be able to submit now then add the Lor to your application later.

 

[sbhav]

You really don't need LOR until you want to submit your secondaries. Go ahead and submit the primary, and you can add the letter once it is complete.

 

[DrHugs]

Thanks for the replies.

Can I submit letters after submission for both AMCAS and TMDSAS?

 

[DrHugs]

Also, on the small chance that my letter writer will not submit the letter, I think that I will submit with the old letter, then when I receive the new letter delete the old one from my application and add the new one. Does that sound OK?

 

[GopherMD]

Also, on the small chance that my letter writer will not submit the letter, I think that I will submit with the old letter, then when I receive the new letter delete the old one from my application and add the new one. Does that sound OK?

Once you send a letter to a school, it can't be deleted. So, I suggest you submit your primary application now without assigning any letters to specific schools. You can assign the letters later, once you know which letters you will have.

 

[DrHugs]

Once you send a letter to a school, it can't be deleted. So, I suggest you submit your primary application without assigning any letters to specific schools. You can assign the letters later, once you know which letters you will have.

I have 4 other letters. So you suggest holding all the letters until I receive the last one? What about submitting my 4 letters now and submitting the last one when I get it?

 

[GopherMD]

I have 4 other letters. So you suggest holding all the letters until I receive the last one? What about submitting my 4 letters now and submitting the last one when I get it?

You can submit the letters to AMCAS now, but I wouldn't assign them to the schools until you know their letter requirements (some schools won't tell you them until you get their secondary).

When I applied, I assigned the letters once I received and submitted a school's secondary.

 

[I Love Cats]

Speaking of submitting now (today), this is still considered "early" right? How long do you guys estimate verification will take with a submission today? 3 weeks?

 

[Ismet]

Speaking of submitting now (today), this is still considered "early" right? How long do you guys estimate verification will take with a submission today? 3 weeks?

Yes you will still be early. I'm not up on the current statistics of this cycle's verification time, but I'd say 3 weeks is probably a good/generous estimate.

 

[I Love Cats]

Generous as in maybe a tiny less?

 

[Ismet]

Generous as in maybe a tiny less?

Maybe...but like I said, I don't know how verification is going at this point. A user named DAPI made a graph showing submit date vs. how long it took to get verified.

(Credit to DAPI!)

EDIT: so 3 weeks seems generous, but with the 1-week delay this year and almost double the number of applicants submitting day 1 compared to last year, it may take even longer...or they may speed it up...

 

[I Love Cats]

I assume they will verify at the same rate as always. I doubt they care much to hire more and work overtime to compensate for the 6 days less of potential verification. I've been considering myself 10 days past the opening since it's likely a lot of people never knew about the change and signed in at 9:30 am ET on june 4 to find they could not submit until the 10th, so hopefully < 3 weeks and am verified by early July.

And thank you for your responses and that wonderful graph.

 

[DrHugs]

Just submitted my app. I am planning on completing prereqs at a university at a in the spring, and I indicated this in my application. I have not yet attended the university, therefore I cannot send a transcript to AMCAS. After I submitted my application I received an email from AMCAS asking for the transcript. I sent an email to AMCAS telling them this. I hope that I did not make a mistake in my application. Is there anything I can do at this point?