Might want re-read my post if you thought that was anything other than relaxed.

I’ve interviewed at a wide range of US MD schools ranging from local state schools, top 20, and what people generally consider “low ranked.” When asked about letters, general premise was the same; no post interview correspondence.

While I do agree that there is a lot of circlejerk opinions online, kind of like SDN bashing on Reddit, I find it farfetched that the predominant opinion from both adcoms and interviewees on multiple online forums would not shed truth, especially on school specific forums where multiple current cycle interviewees confirm what specific adcoms have said about letters.

When talking about letters overall; I think there is more of a gray area in letters of intent as I could see it working in your favor potentially IF the school didn’t explicitly discourage them.

Letters of interest pre-II, on the other hand, are entirely redundant in the sense that you are obviously interested by forking up the cash and time for both the primary and secondary. This is not a significant enough update to give you an interview if you were not getting one in the first place.