The Letters of Evaluation section gives you the opportunity to indicate who will be writing letters on your behalf. A letter of evaluation is a letter written by a recommender that assesses your qualities, characteristics, and capabilities. Most medical schools allow the AMCAS program to accept, collect, and transmit letters of evaluation for their applicants. This service enables medical schools to receive all letters electronically with your AMCAS application and permits letter authors to send all letters to the AMCAS program rather than to each school.
Letters are not required to submit, or for the AMCAS program to verify, your application. You may submit your application before your letters of evaluation arrive at the AMCAS program.
You may have up to 10 letters associated with your AMCAS application. The number is intended to enable you and your letter authors to target specific letters to specific schools, if you wish to do so. However, the 10-letter total does not suggest that any one school wishes to receive 10 letters. If your advising office or career center is forwarding your letters to the AMCAS program, please consult with the office or center before you enter the information on your AMCAS application in order to avoid complications. Please review the Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR) for additional requirements for each MD-granting school.
The AMCAS program will retain and deliver letters only within a single application year. You may not make any changes to the letter information after you have submitted your application. If you are a reapplicant, you will need to resubmit letters of evaluation to the AMCAS program for each application cycle.
A letter of evaluation is automatically submitted to medical schools once your application has been processed, the letter has been marked as “received,” and you have assigned the letter to the appropriate school(s) in your AMCAS application. Once a letter is delivered to a medical school, it can’t be returned.
Information about how letter authors may submit letters to the AMCAS program is available on the Letter Request Form and on the AMCAS website. The letter of evaluation must be submitted by one of the authors or their institutional designee.