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Most schools require a letter from at least 1 science professor or a committee letter, which requires science letters.
How would this look to a DO school?
5 letters of recommendation from doctors. 4 MDs, 1 DO. Three of the MDs are department heads. Also 1 letter from the pre-medical advisor at my school. No science teachers. No any kind of teachers. Help?
This is probably not good. You should call the schools to see if they are okay with it, but it is my guess that Isoprop is right, you MUST have a faculty letter of recommendation from one of your professors, typically they have to include a science letter.
Think of it this way, if you submit letters from people who have never instructed you then how does the school know what you are like as a student? Sure they have grades, but that doesn't speak to you as an individual during the learning process. I would recommend that you try to get a couple science letters of recommendation if possible.
Good luck.
Throughout college I had a part-time job at a local restaurant and got a letter of recommendation from my GM, for whom I have worked for over 6 years. Would this letter be frowned upon by admissions people and not be recommended because it is not coming from someone in a health-related field? Or could it be useful as far as a character/leadership/persistence/team player standpoint since she has known me for so long?
Thanks!
-D
I think that working in a hospital setting around doctors is 100x more important than shadowing a physician per se.
I guess I am frusterated because my shadowing experiences have been awkward. I mean I shadowed a cardiologist who watched espn between patients and hardly even talked to me. lol it sucked
Don't you have to submit your letters wiht your AACOMAS?
I'm getting a LOR from a DO, but she doesn't have an official letterhead. Can I just make a generic one on MS Word, and just have her use that?
So schools are telling me they haven't gotten a DO letter, but my advisor said he uploaded it to Virtual Evals (I guess thats what my undergrad institution uses).
What should I do?!
When schools say "basic" science LOR, do they mean just chem, bio, or physics? Would biochem or plath path prof work?
Hey guys, came here for some letter advice. So I have 2 science letters, one non- science letter and 1 DO letter so far on interfolio. I am close to finishing my first few secondaries to azcom and ccom. I am waiting on 1 MD letter from the family phys i shadowed. It should go out this week and will probably take at least 2 weeks till it gets on interfolio. I want to go ahead and apply to these two schools rite now but i was wondering once i get my letter from my family physician can i send it to azcom/ccom? will they accept a late one?
Also, most schools mention about 3 letters but can we send 5 in total?
thanks in advance
Hey guys,
So I got a letter from a D.O. already but I don't feel like he wrote the best of letters. I was wondering, how important is the D.O. letter really?
How influential do you think it would be to get a D.O. letter from a D.O. on the faculty at my #1 school. I'm in a position to do that right now, and assuming everything goes well, I could get that letter in a month. But that would mean holding off on having a complete application earlier.
Would appreciate you guys' opinion