Worried I seriously screwed up on my AMCAS...

[Nena01]

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I just realized I assigned all my letters of rec to 7 schools and submitted my app thinking I could remove letters after submission. I wasn't aware we could not delete letters..

I ended up sending these schools all 8 letters...including a peer letter that was only meant for UF. The rest of the letters are 2 nonscience, 2 science, and 3 character (TA supervisor, PI, and Volunteer Coordinator).

What do I do? I was planning on picking and choosing 5 of these for each school.. now they all got a peer letter from a coworker... Can I call each school and ask them to ignore some letters? is that possible?

Now I can't focus on secondaries... :/

 

[Beargryllz]

This is the information age

More information is an asset

Meanwhile, I can't even get these jokers to finish their letters

Lucky SOB

 

[SilverCat]

I just realized I assigned all my letters of rec to 7 schools and submitted my app thinking I could remove letters after submission. I wasn't aware we could not delete letters..

I ended up sending these schools all 8 letters...including a peer letter that was only meant for UF. The rest of the letters are 2 nonscience, 2 science, and 3 character (TA supervisor, PI, and Volunteer Coordinator).

What do I do? I was planning on picking and choosing 5 of these for each school.. now they all got a peer letter from a coworker... Can I call each school and ask them to ignore some letters? is that possible?

Now I can't focus on secondaries... :/

I don't think you can pick and choose different letters for different schools. Each school receives the same letters. I don't think it will be a big deal unless the peer letter specifically states that UF is your first choice.

Has your AMCAS been verified? If it hasn't, you could pull it and remove some, and risk being quite late for verification.

 

[slopes23]

What's done is done for better or worse. Concentrate on secondaries and keep looking forward.

 

[Nena01]

I don't think you can pick and choose different letters for different schools. Each school receives the same letters. I don't think it will be a big deal unless the peer letter specifically states that UF is your first choice. Also, who sends a peer letter; isn't this a recommendation from a friend? Is this a specific requirement for UF? I can't see an adcom taking a letter from a friend seriously.

Has your AMCAS been verified? If it hasn't, you could pull it and remove some, and risk being quite late for verification.

Yes, UF has an optional peer letter from a friend.. my friend said she didn't mention UF as my first choice, thank god..

My AMCAS is verified already though, I guess there is nothing I can do? I'm just afraid it's gonna show as little attention to detail on my part...I was hoping to follow each school's preference on letters 🙁

 

[Arkaine]

SilverCat, you can pick and choose which letters to be sent to specific schools.

Nena, your 7 schools will pick and choose which letters technically fulfill their requirements (generally, most require some combination of faculty, science prof, non-science prof, academic adviser, etc.). All other letters will either be considered supplementary in support of your application, or will be ignored. No big deal.

EDIT: Some schools also have you input which letters will fulfill their requirements in their secondaries--another reason not to worry.

 

[Nena01]

SilverCat, you can pick and choose which letters to be sent to specific schools.

Nena, your 7 schools will pick and choose which letters technically fulfill their requirements (generally, most require some combination of faculty, science prof, non-science prof, academic adviser, etc.). All other letters will either be considered supplementary in support of your application, or will be ignored. No big deal.

EDIT: Some schools also have you input which letters will fulfill their requirements in their secondaries--another reason not to worry.

Thanks so much for your input, it makes me feel a little better knowing I can assign letters to each category in the secondaries. Hoping I don't get any weird looks from interviewers for submitting a peer letter to schools that don't care for one!

 

[Nena01]

Anyone have any other input on this? Some schools specifically say no more than 5 letters so I'm still a little worried... should I contact them?

 

[The Kraken]

Anyone have any other input on this? Some schools specifically say no more than 5 letters so I'm still a little worried... should I contact them?

Call every single one Monday morning and be incredibly friendly to the staff.

 

[Jepstein30]

I don't think you can pick and choose different letters for different schools. Each school receives the same letters. I don't think it will be a big deal unless the peer letter specifically states that UF is your first choice.

Has your AMCAS been verified? If it hasn't, you could pull it and remove some, and risk being quite late for verification.

Please don't give advice on things you don't know. You can potentially really screw up someone's application cycle.

You CAN pick and choose different letters for different schools.

DO NOT withdraw your application. Withdrawing is non-reversible and you will NOT be able to resubmit your application this cycle.