<p>A friend and I were just talking about how the LORs (or LOEs) are sent in. I just assumed it was like grad school apps and the profs do the sending. Is that correct? Do the profs send the LORs to AMCAS? or is there another way?</p>
<p>My son's school does Committee Letters so the LORs will first go to them and they create the pkg. I'm guessing that the CL sends to AMCAS.</p>
<p>D2’s college uses a committee letter. Her school requires that anyone requesting a committee letter file a request (plus fill out an extensive questionnaire) with pre med letter committee/health profession advising center. The center contacts the LOR writers the student specifies and has the recommenders fill out a special form.</p>
<p>And to make this even more nerve wracking—they require anyone requesting a committee letter file their request no later than March 22. Anyone requesting a letter after the deadline has to pay a “late request penalty” of $25 plus their letter won’t be issued until July 1 or later. (How late depends upon how late the request was. Requests made after the end of the spring semester may not get fulfill until after the fall semester begins since profs may not be available.)</p>
<p>The take-away–your son needs to see what his school’s procedure for a committee letter is. Many schools prefer the recommenders fill out a special form rather than write a separate LOR.</p>
<p>He also needs to check to see if there is a deadline for requesting a committee letter.</p>
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<p>Once your son has opened his AMCAS file, he will receive a URL link, which he in turn will forward to the committee. His LOR will be uploaded directly to the AMCAS link by the committee.</p>
<p>Thanks for the explanation! :)</p>
<p>Once your son has opened his AMCAS file, he will receive a URL link, which he in turn will forward to the committee. His LOR will be uploaded directly to the AMCAS link by the committee.</p>
<p>Ahh… I was wondering about that. When older son applied to grad schools, there were links that the profs used. Glad to know that there’s a similar process for these.</p>
<p>I have no idea if AMCAS changes from year to year.</p>
<p>When I applied in 2010, there was a page on the online AMCAS for LORs. The page asked for the name of the recommender, the type of letter, etc. My school instructed me to just write the head of the committee’s name and then to select that it was a committee letter. AMCAS generated a form that I printed, signed, and turned into my committee. The committee took it from there. </p>
<p>The committee requested that I send at least 3 recommendation letters to them–2 from science profs, 1 from a non-science prof. I sent more than 3. For each of those letters, university policy is to sign a release form that you won’t read the letter. I completed those forms and gave them to my professors with instructions for getting them to the committee.</p>
<p>When all the letters got to the committee, I had my committee interview. After that, my cover letter was written, my other letters attached, and off the package went. All schools got my letters. Two of my schools had different rec letter requirements–I just told my committee about it, and they took care of it.</p>
<p>The slight hiccup that I ran into was that a few of my strongest writers were unable to finish my letters by April (I mean…they’re full time professors, who could blame them?), and my committee didn’t interview during the summer. So I’d completed everything I could complete by July, and ended up having to wait until the end of August for my committee interview and my LORs to be complete. Was it a total disaster? No. It kinda sucked, but hey, it worked out in the end.</p>
<p>Thanks Kristin</p>
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<p>Good info!</p>