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This was written in December 09, and was only sent out to a few schools. Still basically accurate except for a couple uses of present tense. The only reason I want to re-use is because the LOR writer is insanely busy and it was like pulling teeth last year to get it from him. NOTE: I will be re-applying to 2 of the same schools.

What do y'all think?

From what I've read on TLS letters of recommendation don't exactly expire. If it's from last year you should be good to go.

If you're re-applying to the same schools, I don't know. If you think it was a strong letter and didn't effect you poorly last cycle, then it should be fine.

I dunno if this is correct, but I used the same LORs from last year. I figured they were outdated (I was at the time a student in their classes and have since graduated) but then I thought, why would it make a difference if it is still a good rec?

GentlemanJim wrote:This was written in December 09, and was only sent out to a few schools. Still basically accurate except for a couple uses of present tense. The only reason I want to re-use is because the LOR writer is insanely busy and it was like pulling teeth last year to get it from him. NOTE: I will be re-applying to 2 of the same schools.

What do y'all think?

Yeah, that sounds somewhat like what happened in my case. I took the LSAT Dec. '09 and had the first of my 2 LORs written within a week. However, the 2nd one was not officially sent in until around the first of February. It took him well over two months for him to finally get it in and I had given him plenty of time to write it. As you can imagine, I was not too thrilled about it since I had wasted precious time waiting for him to write the damn thing (he was very distinguished in his field; the only reason I felt inclined to wait so long). All that being said, I am definitely re-using his LOR for this cycle. I don't really feel that schools frown upon this. Of course, that's just my 2 cents.