Form C

TO: Students applying to me dica l, denta l a nd graduate s chools, etc.

FROM:

Dr. Ben Aronson AND Dr. Lisa Olson

Health Professions Advisor Health Professions Advisor

1. Procedure for Requesting the University of Redlands Health Professions Advisor to Collect

Letters of Recommendation on your behalf.

Fill out and return to us the form "Student Request for Health Professions Advisor to

Collect Letters of Recommendation. Be sure to sign and date the appropriate section

indicating whether or not you waive your right of access to the letters of recommendation.

* IF YOU WILL BE SUBMITTING APPLICATION S TO MEDICAL OR DENTAL

SCHOOLS THI S SUMMER OR F ALL, IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU FILL OUT

THIS FORM AND RETURN IT TO US IMMEDIATELY !!

For each recommender you listed on the form in #1 above, fill out the front page of one of

the forms "Request for Letter of Recommendation" and then give the form to the

recommender.

* IT IS YOUR RE SPON SIBILITY (AND NOT OURS) TO SEE THAT TH E

RE COMMEN DERS GET THE LETTERS TO U S.

You should check with us every couple weeks to see what letters we have received so that

you can prod those professors who have not gotten the letters done yet.

However, other schools will send you their own evaluation/recommendation forms. You are

usually supposed to give these forms to the recommenders to fill out and return to the

schools. Some of these schools will indicate that use of their form is mandatory but that

the recommender may attach a personal letter of recommendation to the form. Other

schools will indicate that use of their form is optional; the recommender may attach a

personal letter of recommendation to the form or may even substitute a personal letter of

recommendation in place of the form.

Form C

In any case, these forms from the schools inevitably provide a rather small space for specific

comments by the recommender and hence do not allow the recommender to comment on your

capabilities, motivation, etc. in as much detail as is possible with a letter. Therefore,

it is almost

always to your advantage to have the recommender fill out the form and then send it to us

; we can

then attach a copy of that recommender's letter from your Health Professions file and send both to

the school.

Be sure for each school to indicate

◊ Full name and address of school where letters are to be sent.

◊ The names of those recommenders whose letters you wish sent.

◊ For each recommender whether:

(a) Just the letter of recommendation in your file is to be sent, or

(b) The letter of recommendation in your file is to be attached to and sent

form. We will not send out any letters of recommendation with just a verbal authorization

from you.

It often takes several days to get letters out, so do not wait until the last minute to

request letters to be sent. Unless you indicate otherwise, we will wait until we have all

letters and forms that you indicate are to be sent to a particular school before we send

those letters and forms to that school.

ONCE AGAIN, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY (AND NOT OURS) TO SEE THAT THE

RECOMMENDERS GET THE LETTERS AND FORMS TO US.

your U. of R. Health Professions file to be attached to these forms before they are returned

to the school, complete for each recommender a copy of the form "Student Request for

Recommender to Fill Out Evaluation/Recommendation Forms." Attach the

evaluation/recommendation form(s) you wish the recommender to fill out and then give to

the recommender.

Form C

The recommender should complete the attached evaluation/recommendation form(s) and

return to us. We will attach the letters of recommendation form your file to the appropriate

forms and will then send everything on to the requesting school.

Be sure for each school that you have also completed and returned to us the form

requesting letters of recommendation to be sent out, as described in #4 above. Be sure on

form, we will wait until we have received the form from the recommender before we send

that letter to the requesting school.

* NOTE THAT IT I S AGAIN YOUR RE SPONSIBI LITY TO DELI VER AN Y

Recommendations that come to us by any other route will not be accepted.

7. An initial supply of necessary forms is included with this memo. Additional copies of any of

these forms can be obtained from the University of Redlands Health Professions Advisor.