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So I understand that most schools require 2 science letters and 1 nonscience letter. My question is what counts as a nonscience letter? So far I have two TA positions with professors that I have had as teachers before in a biology and nutrition course, so right there are 2 good science letters; however I really have no nonscience classes left to take (I have 2 semesters left of all physics and upper level nutrition courses.)
The only nonscience teachers I have had were in my freshman and sophomore year - before I knew I wanted to become a dentist, hence I didn't try to build a relationship with them. When they say "science letters" are they talking about just BCP sciences (like microbio, biology, biochemistry, chem, physics) or do they include other courses that are considered sciences too, but not targeted towards a medical field (such as my upper level nutrition courses which involve a large amount of biochemistry actually). Would they ignore someones application if they had 3 good science letters, 1 nonmajor and 2 major. For example a combo such as -
1 Biology Professor Letter
2 Nutritional Science Professor Letters
That's equivalent to 2 letters from my major (nutrition), 1 from non-major (biology) but all 3 are from science.
Let me know what you think...
The only nonscience teachers I have had were in my freshman and sophomore year - before I knew I wanted to become a dentist, hence I didn't try to build a relationship with them. When they say "science letters" are they talking about just BCP sciences (like microbio, biology, biochemistry, chem, physics) or do they include other courses that are considered sciences too, but not targeted towards a medical field (such as my upper level nutrition courses which involve a large amount of biochemistry actually). Would they ignore someones application if they had 3 good science letters, 1 nonmajor and 2 major. For example a combo such as -
1 Biology Professor Letter
2 Nutritional Science Professor Letters
That's equivalent to 2 letters from my major (nutrition), 1 from non-major (biology) but all 3 are from science.
Let me know what you think...