VirtualsEvals Are Coming!
VirtualEvals is a secure, web-based system through which health professions advisors can transmit letters of evaluation to health professions schools. Currently, several MD, DO and OD (optometry) schools are (preferring) accepting letters through VirtualEvals. You can go to their site for a listing of all the participating schools. The optometry schools have recently jumped on board, so there may not be a complete listing yet. VirtualEvals is designed to improve the efficiency with which letters of evaluation are transmitted by undergraduate schools (senders) as well as the efficiency with which they are received and processed in admissions offices at health professions schools (receivers). This also will mean that if the schools to which you are applying accept letters through VirtualEvals, you no longer have to pre-address and stamp envelopes for each MD, DO or OD (optometry) school. Again, be sure to check the VirtualEvals site to see what schools are participating. We hope to have final word about our participation in this program by the end of May. Check back and we will let you know. You would still need to complete a Release Form or grab one from the outside office area of 108 Norton. We still need your written permission to release your letters.
