Non-science faculty LOR question.

[HealthHare]

My pre-med committee letter required 4 letters, 2 from science faculty and 2 other. For the other letters I chose two research PIs since I thought they could speak best to my abilities. However, now I don't have a non-science faculty letter, which I know many schools require.

Can I simply just send the non-science letter separately? Is it bad that the non-science letter will not be a part of my committee letter?

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[HealthHare]

Also some schools say they want a total of 3 or 4 letters max. Does the committee letter count as one letter or however many letters were used to make it?

 

[deleted462159]

Do they have to all be from professors? I think it's common to get letters from your employer, supervisor where you volunteer, etc.

 

[McNCheese]

Find out if your committee letter will accept a 5th letter. That's probably the best way to do things.

 

[DAPI]

Like 99% of schools say 2 science and a non-science faculty OR a committee letter. The schools are not going to care if you do not have a non-science LOR within your packet or if there are more letters than their max.

 

[McNCheese]

Like 99% of schools say 2 science and a non-science faculty OR a committee letter. The schools are not going to care if you do not have a non-science LOR within your packet or if there are more letters than their max.

Agreed. My committee did not require a non-science faculty letter, so I did not send one in. All of the schools I applied to accepted committee letters, and none of them had issues with my committee packet lacking a non-science faculty letter.