Releasing Your Committee Packet of Letters
If you came through the Prehealth Committee in April 2009 in support of a 2010 application for any of the professional schools (or plan to do so in September 2009), you will want to be sure you complete and submit a Release Form to our office (109 Norton Hall) once you begin to receive secondary applications from individual schools - MD and DO primarily. This is so our office has your permission to release your Prehealth Committee packet. We are UNABLE to send out your letters if we do not have this completed form on record in our office. If you are applying through AADSAS in support of a dental school application, you have more flexibility to release your letters at other times (earlier). The Release Form is available at the link.
You can drop this off to us, mail it to us or fax to us at 716-645-3042. Again, if we do not have a signed Release Form, we CANNOT send your letters.
Remember if you are applying to MD, DO or OD (optometry) schools check to see if the school is using VirtualEvals (VEClient) first.
Our offices uses VirtualEvals (VEClient) and *not* a system called Interfolio. If the schools do participate in VEClient, you only need to list the schools (ALL) on your Release Form and then contact us as you receive secondary applications, so that we stagger the sending of your letters over the summer as you receive and return your secondary (school specific) applications. Again, this is primarily for MD and DO schools only. You can email Virginia (Jinny) Majewski at vmajewsk@buffalo.edu as you get prompted to complete secondary applications. If the school is NOT using VEClient, you want to pre-address an envelope (available in 108 Norton) and provide the cash, check or money order for postage (please do not purchase and affix the postage yourself) ($1.50) to us so we can send your packet via US mail. Please turn in your Release Form with your prepared envelopes to 109 Norton.
For AMCAS (MD) Letter Pilot go to the link. For information on how to answer questions on your AMCAS application pertaining to your letters, please click on the link.
Please note especially items 5-8 as UB uses VEClient.
For AACOMAS (DO) please go to
the link. Most US DO schools use VEClient.
For AADSAS (DDS) please go to the link.
On this application, you will want to indicate that you have a Committee letter and only need to designate one person as the primary author. This person should be Dr. Lee Dryden, Chair of the Prehealth Committee. You can use: 109 Norton, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 as his contact information. Again, these guidelines presume you have or plan to come through the Committee this year for your fall 2010 application. DDS schools do not use VEClient.
** You will be asked on your AADSAS application whether our office will be submitting your letters electronically or via paper to AADSAS. We will announce this decision soon via this listserv and the Prehealth Bulletin.**
OptomCAS (Optometry) Letters
We expect an announcement over the next week or so as to how we can transmit your letters to the new central service starting July 15 for applicants to US optometry schools. We will post more information to the listserv and/or Prehealth Bulletin once it becomes available to us.
If you have questions as you are applying, please consider setting a phone or in person appointment with Dalene Aylward or Libby Morsheimer by calling 716-645-6013.
