Where to send the committee letter?

[MorieRo]

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Hey you guys,

I was wondering where I should have my committee letter sent to. I have read somewhere that while some schools require you to send your recommendations to the MD department only, others want you to either send them to the MD/PhD only or to both the MD and the MD/PhD departments.

Does anybody know how to go about this? I am putting together an excel file to give to the secretary who is sending out the committee letter to schools and I am not sure what address to give her.

Thanks.😀

 

[j-weezy]

Hey you guys,

I was wondering where I should have my committee letter sent to. I have read somewhere that while some schools require you to send your recommendations to the MD department only, others want you to either send them to the MD/PhD only or to both the MD and the MD/PhD departments.

Does anybody know how to go about this? I am putting together an excel file to give to the secretary who is sending out the committee letter to schools and I am not sure what address to give her.

Thanks.😀

To the address the school specifies?? Some want LORs sent to the MD office, some to the MD/PhD office, some to both. Unless you provide a whole lot more info, that's as much as I can help.

 

[solitude]

To the address the school specifies?? Some want LORs sent to the MD office, some to the MD/PhD office, some to both. Unless you provide a whole lot more info, that's as much as I can help.

Yeah, it's different for almost every school. You will probably need to scour the websites for each school, though if you have any questions I'm sure people on here can help. If your school signed up for VirtualEvals it would save the secretary a ton of time!

 

[MorieRo]

thanks for the replies. i don't think my school is signed up for virtualevals. that's what you get for going to a small liberal arts school... i think they're still trying to figure things out.

is it the recommender or the secretary that sends stuff out to virtualevals?

i've signed up for interfolio and even had one of my recommenders send a LOR to their address. do you think I should try to switch to virtualevals?

 

[j-weezy]

thanks for the replies. i don't think my school is signed up for virtualevals. that's what you get for going to a small liberal arts school... i think they're still trying to figure things out.

is it the recommender or the secretary that sends stuff out to virtualevals?

i've signed up for interfolio and even had one of my recommenders send a LOR to their address. do you think I should try to switch to virtualevals?

Not now, you need to get your LORs out ASAP. A combination of using your school's secretary and Interfolio should be fine - just make sure you look up each school's requirements on where to send LORs.

 

[Maebea]

thanks for the replies. i don't think my school is signed up for virtualevals. that's what you get for going to a small liberal arts school... i think they're still trying to figure things out.

is it the recommender or the secretary that sends stuff out to virtualevals?

i've signed up for interfolio and even had one of my recommenders send a LOR to their address. do you think I should try to switch to virtualevals?

VirtualEvals is not available to individuals; only a school can sign up for it. I believe the cost is $100 per year for the school, plus $10 for each applicant. The $10 allows the premed advisor to send recommendations to an unlimited number of programs. The advisors who use VirtualEvals love it, as do the admissions offices that receive the letters. There have been some problems this year due to the explosive growth of the service, but it is still much better and cheaper than the old way of collecting and sending letters.

 

[Ok2Panic]

Not to hijack this thread, but any thoughts on bypassing the committee letter for MD/PhD admissions? I've read alot of advice and comments via search, but nothing specifically from an MD/PhD applicant perspective.