<p>I've got a dilemma which I'm sure is familiar to many of you applying for graduate school. I've been in the workforce for 4 years now and I really want to go to graduate school. I've managed to line up 3 profs and 1 business recommender to write LORs. I started the process of doing this in July 08 for Fall of 09 admission. This process of getting LORs from these folks in a timely manner has be excruciatingly painful. I want to prod them without annoying them, etc and now its getting to be crunch time. I've applied to three schools and I want to apply to three more. I found this service called interfolio.com that collects an LOR for a recommender and submits it to your chosen school. I thought this was great because it puts me in control of the process once the LOR is sent. The only drawback is that the recommender would have to write a more general letter and not one specific to the program for which I am applying. This service seems really appealing though, should I use it?</p>
<p>I've used it and it worked out well...highly recommended.</p>
<p>Interfolio was designed for those applying for jobs, not for aspiring grad students. Although it can certainly be used for grad school applications, you've identified the serious drawback-- letters cannot be tailored to each institution. </p>
<p>Some students do use it. Personally, I am not a fan of using it for this purpose, since it can (and does) give the impression that your recommenders are not sufficiently enthusiastic about you to tailor letters. </p>
<p>However, in certain cases, such as when recommenders are overseas, or running for President of the US or something of that nature, I could see the wisdom in using it.</p>