VirtualsEvals/Prehealth Committee Minor Cost Increase
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 letters transmitted 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) schools. Again, be sure to check the VirtualEvals site to see what schools are participating. 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.
We will begin to use VirtualEvals this summer for transmission for letters in support of fall 2007 admission.
Because of the costs incurred to use VirtualEvals, there will be a minor increase in the Prehealth Committee fee effective Sept 1 from $35 to $40.
If you are applying through two separate professional school application services (e.g., AAMCAS for MD and AACOMAS for DO), there is an additional fee of $5 to cover the costs associated with applying through two central services.
