<p>Just got the letter today (March 7); it says the parent recommendation must be received by March 10 to be incorporated into the review process. The letter itself is dated Feb 21.
This is discouraging! – so late in the admissions process, and having received conflicting info about this letter, which admissions told me they had mailed Feb 14.</p>
<p>my dad sent ours express mail today to at least it will get there in time</p>
<p>mine only came today too! it took two weeks to get here, but i think my parent will probably write and send it tomorrow, hoping it gets there by march 10th. maybe we’ll send it priority mail and call richmond to explain why it might be late…</p>
<p>I’ll be interested to find out if those of us who received these letters so late get acceptances. This seems so late in the admissions process (too late?).</p>
<p>ours was dated 2/21 didn’t arrive until 3/4. I hope that the decisions don’t take that long to arrive!</p>
<p>D’s parent letter was also dated 2-21 and arrived on 3-4. I was ready to blame our post office (which sometimes is slow) but maybe it was on UR end. Letter said it would need to be received by 3-10 to be considered. I sent out on 3-7 from NJ – hopefully it made it.</p>
<p>Just to guess, it seems like they are reaching a new batch of applications they haven’t looked at yet at all. I was just reading another UR thread that indicates that a lot of applicants were getting acceptance e-mails or likely letters in early March.</p>
<p>Now I see that my speculation about a “new batch” is not quite correct. At least one of the posters that received a likely letter also received a very late parent recommendation request. Obviously, some of these activities were going on in parallel.</p>
<p>We received the parent letter request back in February. </p>
<p>I am embarassed to say that with all of the tax, fafsa, css profile stuff I was working on, I totally forgot to send one. I did not tell D that I forgot, (still won’t). </p>
<p>Glad it all worked out.</p>
<p>2011VAMom, I did the same thing. But in my case, I did not forget. I knew it had been sitting on my desk but I just did not have the time to write it since I was also busy doing the taxes, fafsa, css, etc.</p>
<p>I really don’t think the parent recommendation letters have any weight on the acceptance decisions because we got a likely letter.</p>
<p>I sent mine on March 7th (overnight) They received it on March 8th and I received a LL on March 9th do I doubt it really mattered much.</p>
<p>Glad it worked out for us and for both of you!
Let’s hope it an affordable choice for our family.</p>
<p>We received the letter regarding a parent recommendation on March 10 (the deadline date for responding with a rec letter was March 10)! We live in the Atlanta area, so I’m not sure why so late. I called the Richmond Office of Admissions, and they said we could FAX a letter to them. My understanding is that not sending a parent letter does not affect your child’s file at all; sending a letter is icing.</p>