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can i add a letter of rec after i've e-submitted my app to another school through pharmcas?
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can i add a letter of rec after i've e-submitted my app to another school through pharmcas?
The OP would have to use a program provided by his university to store the lors. He obviously couldn't use Elors and I doubt he knows what elors are this early in the game. You raise a good point thought because I can't imagine having to mail out paper letters as PharmCas states it can take weeks upon weeks for these things to be verified.
If you're asking now, I would assume you were using an LOR storage program through your university/college. Pharmacy is a little different than any other program in the way it handles LORs in that they are centralized (meaning they are sent through something like PharmCAS, which distributes the copies to all your pharmacy schools). As a result, I could only imagine you fostering your relationship with your professor (taking more classes or indulging in more activities with the professor like previous posts mentioned) in order for them to be useful to your application.
What kind of letter can be written about your performance in class you haven't finished? LORs I have received in the past took at least 3 months to process after I first asked.
Edit: Although I did ask my professor at my final, most of my requests were when my final grades were already compiled. At the university level, your professors work all-year. They don't really have breaks, they just stop teaching for a while.
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Are you sure. I thought once you submitted the application you were only able to update through Academic update. Though admittedly I haven't read pharmcas instructions since last year. Most people never do.
I'm getting my letter of recommendations next week and I was wondering do you have to submit them online or can you just mail it to the school? Please help,so I can get my things done. Thanks =).
I would go ahead and give it a shot. Just a personal opinion based on my experience: if you ask a professor at a CC, he or she tends to be willing to help you out. It is tougher if you ask one from a 4-yr university, since he or she can put you on the "waitlist" before possibly considering to write you a letter just because you interacted with the professor a few times and not enough. (I thought this was ridiculous though.)
Do you think it would be a bit late if I ask at the start of the upcoming semester? I wanted to get my final grade before I asked so I waited till the end of this one.
Do you think it would be a bit late if I ask at the start of the upcoming semester? I wanted to get my final grade before I asked so I waited till the end of this one.
Which Professor is this?
it's good to ask a professor after at least 1 semester being a student in his/her class. I tried to ask a professor during my first semester in her class and she said she wouldn't do it because she didn't know me well enough to write a good letter of reccomendation. If the professor doesn't know you well enough or think highly of you, there is no point in writing a letter of reccomendation unless you are really desperate for one. I rather have a good LOR than a less flattering LOR which basically means the Professor doesn't endorse you.
For one of the science classes I got an A in, I've only visted the professor around 6 times the whole semester most of the times just asking about a couple of questions I couldn't get but it was pretty brief. I've also talked to her at the beginning of the term about how I'm doing pre-farm and ****. Is it worth a shot?
Like eukaryote posted, there is a link to the exact questions the references are asked to answer on a "Superior, Excellent, Good , Average, Below Average, Not Observed" rating scale. I heard from one of my references that there is a text box at the end (kind of like the response boxes on these forums) where they can actually write some stuff.
Who should I ask for LOR, biology, chemistry or economics professor? Is it a matter? I've just transfered to a new school, I haven't got to know any professors much. Can I ask my professors at my old school to write me a LOR? Thanks.
It's probably about that time where i have to start asking professors/pharmacists/friends for letters of recommendation. What exactly do i need for them to fill this out completely and correctly? I know pharmcas does not open they new applications until the beginning of june, so i don't know what to do. Do they just give me a letter, do they have to fill out a certain form and mail it in themselves?
Any information will help.
Pharmcas has an online system for recommendations. You need get the email of the person u want to write the recommendation. You would put the email into the pharmcas section under recommendations. Pharmcas would then send a link to the recommender by email so they can fill it out and submit online. This works better and faster.
wait till june 1st. For now, you should contact the recommenders and let them know about this process.Thanks a lot.
So i just have to wait until the beginning of june for everything?
they take a maximum of 4 LORs. I recommend that you should submit 2 from pharmacists who knows you well, and the other 2 from professors.Do you know how many LORs they take?
I have 4 options: 2 pharmacists, 1 professor, and 1 family friend who was the owner/ceo/president of a pharmaceutical company.