INTERFOLIO AND AMCAS

1. INTERFOLIO AND AMCAS • Information for pre-medical students who will be using AMCAS

3. NOW… • LET’S LOOK AT INTERFOLIO

4. INTERFOLIO – ACCOUNT SET-UP • Create an account at www.interfolio.com • Choose 1-yr or 3-yr account • Make sure to select University of Virginia as the affiliation and allow career center access • In account settings, add AAMC ID (and AACOMAS ID if applicable)

5. INTERFOLIO – Request Letters • My Documents section, click the "Request Confidential Letter of Recommendation" link. Enter the name of the writer and give your letter a unique title; this title will be visible to the writer as well as to receiving institutions you include in deliveries. • Next, indicate whether you'd prefer to email the request to your writer, or to print out a request form and physically give it to your writer. 

6. SAMPLE INTERFOLIO LETTER REQUEST

7. INTERFOLIO – Track documents

8. INTERFOLIO – ADD AMCAS LETTER REQUEST FORM(S) • In My Documents, click “Add a document” • Name document • Upload AMCAS Letter Request Form from your desktop (you’ll need to have saved the PDF from the AMCAS application after you entered your letters there)

9. Interfolio - Sending Letters

10. Interfolio Delivery

11. THE AMCAS LETTER SERVICE • WARNING: THESE ARE LAST YEAR’S PROCEDURES AND COULD CHANGE – CHECK AMCAS WEB SITE IN APRIL/MAY

12. AMCAS Letters Letter Basics for AMCAS LETTER SERVICE • Applicants can have up to 10 letters • Applicants can send “targeted” letters • AMCAS retains letters for one application cycle only • You can submit your AMCAS application in early June without having completed the letter portion or having letters uploaded

13. Three Letter Types • Committee Letter:  A committee is a letter authored by a pre-health committee or pre-health advisor and intended to represent your institution's evaluation of you. A committee letter may or may not include additional letters written in support of your application. ********If you are asked to indicate what type of letter, it is this first option. However, if you are applying to a school that permits only one letter, you have the option in the AMCAS letter service to combine all of your letters by copying and pasting all of them together. • Letter Packet: A packet or set of letters assembled and distributed by your institution, often by the institution’s career center. • Individual Letter: An individual letter refers only to a letter authored by, and representing, a single letter writer. If you have already included an individual letter within either a committee letter or letter packet, you do not need to add a separate entry for the individual letter.  

14. AMCAS Letters Letter Basics for AMCAS LETTER SERVICE • In AMCAS, the student will: • Identify letters AMCAS will receive (up to 10 letters) • Committee letter OR letter packet OR Individual letter • Institution Information • Letter Writer / Contact information • Can add additional authors for committee letters / letter packets • Identify the medical schools to which each letter should be sent • Print letter request form and provide it to letter writer / contact • Track receipt of letters by AMCAS

15. AMCAS Letters RECOMMENDED PROCESS FOR Most Applicants – Committee Letter • Enter it once in the AMCAS application as “Committee Letter” • Enter Susan Salko as the “primary author/contact” • Optionally enter names of other authors • Save letter request to your computer and upload to Interfolio • Create a new delivery in Interfolio • In Interfolio select "AMCAS" as your designation • Select the corresponding letter(s) that belong to the letter packet or committee letter • Input the AAMC ID and AMCAS Letter ID found on the AMCAS Letter Request Form for each letter (please note: If the letter(s) are compiled at Interfolio to make one letter packet you will need to enter the same AMCAS Letter ID for all letters that belong in one committee letter or letter packet) • Complete the delivery

16. AMCAS Letters Only if you have a unique letter for a specific school: • Enter this in AMCAS as a “Individual Letter” • Enter Individual’s Name • Save letter request to your computer and upload to Interfolio • Create a new delivery in Interfolio • In Interfolio select "AMCAS" as your designation • Select the corresponding individual letter (s) • You will then be asked AAMC ID and AMCAS Letter ID found on the AMCAS Letter Request Form for each individual letter • Complete the delivery

17. AMCAS Letters Applicants • Designating Letters to Medical Schools • Select Medical School • A pre-populated list of letters entered by they applicant will appear • Choose from the list of letters by either selecting all letters or designating them individually • Letters DO NOT have to be entered before submission of the application. • Once application is submitted with letter information it can NOT be edited/deleted

18. If you forget to assign letters, you’ll receive this email • Subject: • AMCAS Letters Reminder • Name: Fname Lname • AAMC ID#: 12345678 • AMCAS Application Year: 2009 • AMCAS Letters Notification: • You have designated medical schools that do not have any letters assigned to them: • - Baylor College of Medicine • - Creighton University School of Medicine • - Harvard Medical School • - University of Michigan Medical School • - Weill Medical College of Cornell University • AMCAS will not send any of your letters to these schools unless you make the assignments and submit your application again. You may return at any time to complete the letters section, add letters, or make assignments. • Please note: Re-submitting your application to make letters changes will not delay the processing of your application.