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Use Dossier Deliver to Apply to Medical or Dental Schools
Dossier users with a Dossier Deliver subscription can send confidential letters and other materials to medical or dental school applications. Interfolio partners with some medical schools and associations such as AMCAS, AACOMAS, AADSAS and TMDSAS to make letter management easier. This article will cover how to send letters of recommendation to medical and dental school applications.
Check out these articles on how to Create a Free Interfolio Dossier Account, how to Upgrade to Dossier Deliver, and a Video Quick Start Guides for Medical and Dental School Applicants for more information.
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AADSAS or AACOMAS
Confidential letters of recommendation are sent to AADSAS or AACOMAS through a Confidential Letter Upload delivery. This delivery method utilizes the unique document email address generated for every letter stored in a Dossier account. Each delivery costs one delivery credit.
Check out this article on how to Upload a Confidential Letter to an Online Application System for more information.
1. Navigate to New Delivery under Deliveries
Navigation: Deliveries > New Delivery
- Click Deliveries on the navigation menu.
- Click New Delivery at the top of the Deliveries page.
If the account is not upgraded to Dossier Deliver, a prompt will appear to upgrade account before proceeding with delivery. Only paid Dossier Deliver accounts can be used to deliver materials. Check out this article on how to Upgrade to Dossier Deliver for more information.
2. Upload desired Letters of Recommendation
- Click Confidential Letter Upload under the Send Materials section.
- Ensure the option You enter your recommenders' email addresses is selected.
- Click Next.
- Select the checkboxes adjacent to the desired letters to send.
- Click Continue when finished.
Note that only letters of recommendation that have already been received can be used in a delivery.
3. Fill out information
- Click Copy adjacent to the desired letter of recommendation to copy the unique document email address.
- Navigate out of Dossier to the AADSAS or AACOMAS application and paste this document email address into the email address field under "Evaluator's Information" for the relevant letter writer.
- Fill out the other relevant fields of the form, fill in the waiver and permissions check boxes, and click Save This Evaluation Request.
Select Yes to waive the right to access any confidential letter of recommendation being delivered to AADSAS or AACOMAS.
- Clicking this button will initiate the confidential letter upload process, so no additional action is necessary.
Note that once a letter has been delivered to AADSAS or AACOMAS, Interfolio is unable to update or replace it.
Note that submitted confidential letter uploads will not immediately show on the Deliveries page. Once the request from AADSAS or AACOMAS has been received, the estimated time to complete the delivery is 1-3 business days. When the processing of the request has begun, the delivery will show with an In Progress status on the Deliveries page.
Individual DO School
Confidential letters of recommendation are sent to individual DO schools through a custom application that requires an AACOMAS ID to complete.
Users can also send letters to AACOMAS directly through a Confidential Letter Upload delivery. For more on this, check out the AACOMAS section of this article.
1. Copy AACOMAS ID to Dossier under ID Numbers
- Navigate to the AACOMAS application and copy the ten digit AACOMAS ID.
- Navigate to Dossier and click Account Settings from the dropdown in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click ID Numbers on the left-hand navigation bar.
- Click Add ID Number.
- Select AACOMAS under New ID Type.
- Enter the New ID Value that was copied in the first step.
- Click Save when finished.
Evaluators do not need to include the AACOMAS ID number on their letter if they are submitting it to Interfolio.
Check out this article on how to Add ID Numbers My Deliveries for more information.
2. Create a delivery to an individual DO school
- Click Deliveries on the navigation menu.
- Click New Delivery at the top of the Deliveries page.
If the account is not upgraded to Dossier Deliver, a prompt will appear to upgrade account before proceeding with delivery. Only paid Dossier Deliver accounts can be used to deliver materials. Check out this article on how to Upgrade to Dossier Deliver for more information.
- Search for the institution in the Find an Opportunity search field at the bottom of the screen.
- Select the Position Name for the delivery.
- Click Start Application.
- Click Add File adjacent to each document section.
- Select documents to add to the application from existing documents or upload a new file.
- Click Add when finished.
- Click Continue.
- Click Add Custom ID to Application.
- Click Add.
- Click Submit to complete the delivery.
If the AACOMAS ID in the delivery does not match the ID in AACOMAS, the delivery will not sync correctly with the AACOMAS application.
TMDSAS
Confidential letters of recommendation are sent to TMDSAS through a custom application that requires a TMDSAS ID to complete.
TMDSAS requires contact information for letter writers on all letters of recommendation.
Adding a TMDSAS ID to Dossier
1. Copy TMDSAS ID to Dossier under ID Numbers
- Navigate to the TMDSAS application and enter the letter writer's name in the Letters of Evaluation section.
- Select Interfolio from the Indicate how your evaluator will send your letter to TMDSAS dropdown menu.
- Copy the TMDSAS ID.
- Navigate to Dossier and click Account Settings from the dropdown in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click ID Numbers on the left-hand navigation bar.
- Click Add ID Number.
- Select TMDSAS under New ID Type.
- Enter the New ID Value that was copied in the third step.
- Click Save when finished.
TMDSAS requires evaluators to include the TMDSAS ID number on their letter even if they are submitting it to Interfolio.
Check out this article on how to Add ID Numbers My Deliveries for more information.
2. Create a delivery to TMDSAS
- Click Deliveries on the navigation menu.
- Click New Delivery at the top of the Deliveries page.
If the account is not upgraded to Dossier Deliver, a prompt will appear to upgrade account before proceeding with delivery. Only paid Dossier Deliver accounts can be used to deliver materials. Check out this article on how to Upgrade to Dossier Deliver for more information.
- Search for TMDSAS in the Find an Opportunity search field at the bottom of the screen.
- Select the relevant application style.
- Click Start Application.
- Click Add File adjacent to each document section.
- Select documents to add to the application from existing documents or upload a new file.
- Click Add when finished.
- Click Continue.
- Click Add Custom ID to Application to add the TMDSAS ID to the delivery.
- Click Add.
- Click Submit to complete the delivery.
If the TMDSAS ID in the delivery does not match the ID in TMDSAS, the delivery will not sync correctly with the TMDSAS application.
AMCAS
Confidential letters of recommendation are sent to AMCAS through a custom application that requires both letter and AAMC IDs to complete.
When creating an electronic delivery to AMCAS, add only letters of recommendation to the delivery. Do not include the letter request form as this is not a required document for deliveries to AMCAS.
1. Copy AMCAS ID to Dossier under ID Numbers
- Navigate to the AMCAS application and click on the relevant cycle.
- Select My Account from the dropdown menu in the upper right hand corner.
- Copy the eight to ten digit AAMC ID.
- Navigate to Dossier and click Account Settings from the dropdown in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click ID Numbers on the left-hand navigation bar.
- Click Add ID Number.
- Select AMCAS under New ID Type.
- Enter the New ID Value that was copied in the third step.
- Click Save when finished.
Check out this article on how to Add ID Numbers My Deliveries for more information.
2. Create a delivery to AMCAS
- Click Deliveries on the navigation menu.
- Click New Delivery at the top of the Deliveries page.
If the account is not upgraded to Dossier Deliver, a prompt will appear to upgrade account before proceeding with delivery. Only paid Dossier Deliver accounts can be used to deliver materials. Check out this article on how to Upgrade to Dossier Deliver for more information.
- Search for AMCAS in the Find an Opportunity search field at the bottom of the screen.
- Select the relevant application style.
- Click Start Application.
- Click Add File adjacent to each document section.
- Select documents to add to the application from existing documents or upload a new file.
- Click Add when finished.
- Click Continue.
- Click Add Custom ID to Application to add the AMCAS ID to the delivery.
- Click Save Letter IDs.
If the AAMC ID in the delivery does not match the ID in AMCAS, the delivery will not sync correctly with the AMCAS application.
- Click Submit to complete the delivery.
Letters sent to AMCAS typically take 3-5 business days to be attached to an application. For more help with the AMCAS recommendation section, visit the AMCAS FAQ page.