LOR "recent"

bklsat05

Hi,

I don't really see any information about LOR rules except how many.

I was hoping to apply last cycle and get my LORs submitted to LSAC but after decided to postpone. Should I ask my LOR writers to re-write it with a more recent date? Or will an older LOR be ok? They probably wrote these sometime between Sept-Dec of 2016.

I am sure they will rewrite it if I ask, I was extra sweet when they did it and gave hand written cards as thank yous.

inactive

Bumping this to the top!

Mellow_Z

They are fine to reuse

David Busis

Totally fine to use last year's LORs! If you want, you could ask them simply to update the date and resent to LSAC (you'd have to request again), but that's not necessary.

TheMikey

You can reuse them, they're totally fine and are not old or anything

side braid

@"David.Busis" what about LORs from 6 years ago? I applied to law school in 2011 but did not end up accepting any offers. I am applying this cycle for Fall 2018.

Mellow_Z

@"side braid" said:
@"David.Busis" what about LORs from 6 years ago? I applied to law school in 2011 but did not end up accepting any offers. I am applying this cycle for Fall 2018.

According to TLS it sounds like its advisable to get new ones after anything more than a year or so. The same contents of the letter are fine, but schools have apparently urged the applicants to at the very least get the dates on the header from your writers updated.

David Busis

@"side braid" I would ask your professors if they could update the letters. It shouldn't be too onerous—presumably they'll still have the old LORs lying around on the computer.

bklsat05

thanks guys! Super helpful. I'll write to update just in case, and make sure they know that it is totally OK not to do it