Insider Medical Admissions: Emailing Your Letter of Intent

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Emailing Your Letter of Intent

By Michelle A. Finkel MD, InsiderMedicalAdmissions.com

In a previous entry, I recommended sending your letter of intent (LOI) both by snail mail and email - the latter if the institution has not explicitly banned electronic correspondence with them. If you are sending your letter by email, ensure that you send it in the body of the email - not as an attachment. Even one more step (opening the attachment) might impede your document's being read.

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Years of candidate selection at Harvard taught me what characteristics comprise a desirable applicant and how even bright candidates make mistakes that undermine their admissions success. I am a practicing Emergency Physician with nine years of experience training medical students, residents and fellows. I won three teaching and mentorship awards while at Harvard. Please see Insider Medical Admissions for the full array of personalized services I offer to clients applying to medical school, residency, fellowship and post baccalaureate programs.

Dr. Finkel thanks David Presser, MD, MPH for his contributions to the content of her blog entries. Dr. Presser is a practicing Emergency Physician who has written several primers for applicants to medical school and Emergency Medicine residency. Dr. Presser is a graduate of Stanford University, UCSF Medical School, the UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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