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Nearly all health professions programs require multiple letters of recommendation. The types of letters required will vary from program to program. Be sure to check the specific requirements of your target programs. More importantly, letters of recommendation should come from people who know you well and who can comment on the qualities you have that will help you succeed as a competent health professional. Most programs require one or more letters from academic instructors in the basic sciences. NOTE: There is no pre-health committee letter service at the University of Michigan. You will secure individual letters. 

How do my letters get submitted?

  1. Note that all of your letters should be confidential (unseen by you) and if at all possible they should be on official letterhead.  

  2. The great majority of the application services used by health professions programs have reference letter services (RLS) built into them and therefore require that your letters be submitted through the RLS built into the application.  

  3. It is therefore least expensive if you ask your letter writers to wait until the application service opens, at which point you will be able to send them an e-request for a letter (make arrangements for this ahead of time!) that will allow them to submit their letter into the confidential RLS attached to your application.  

  4. If for some reason your letter-writer needs to submit their letter before you can open your account, you still need to use a third-party RLS to maintain the confidential status of the letter (do NOT accept the letter yourself).  

  5. You will then have to instruct the third-party RLS to download your letters into your application once you've opened an application account. There are many good commercial RLS companies available but so far Interfolio is most commonly accepted for this purpose. 

    However, you should always check with the application service about the acceptability of a commercial RLS before opening an account with one!

 

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