When will the HPAO begin forwarding letters to professional schools?
No letters will be forwarded from HPAO until mid to late July at the earliest. Schools do not need letters before this time and many services are not set up to receive them electronically until this time. August 1 is the promised Committee letter date for priority applicants When do I request that HPAO transmit letters to schools? After you submit your primary application to the appropriate application service (AMCAS, AADSAS, etc), they will verify your application and then transmit it to your designated schools. At that point, you will begin to receive requests from schools to complete their secondary/supplemental application. (In some cases, the secondaries are actually available from the school’s website at any time; in other cases, schools may send secondaries to a screened applicant pool only). As you complete secondaries and only after all of your individual letters of recommendation are in, submit the Credentials Mailing Form to the HPAO. Your committee letter, along with your o
