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There are no essays or any questions really, but I will post the LOR and LOE info in the next post.
My school doesn't have a pre-med committee. It says we need at least two science letters...I have three, so do I still need the non-sci letter? If I don't, would I just put the third sci letter in the spot reserved for this non-sci letter? Advice from anyone who's had experience with this would be appreciated.
We should have a timed race to see who can complete the application the fastest, the winner gets an automatic acceptance
Well I probably win then. I submitted it a good 10 minutes after I got the email Tuesday. Got to love the no essay apps!We should have a timed race to see who can complete the application the fastest, the winner gets an automatic acceptance
About the letters, I also have the same questions because they list on their website that you must have at least 2 sci faculty letters and at least one in your major. So I didn't get a non-sci letter. if anyone fins out, please post it. THANKS!!
I marked down that I was sending in both, which I have. I sent in the committee letter along with four individual letters (two major, one non-major, one PI). The committee stuff is so annoying because schools aren't consistent with their definition. Maryland told me the committee letter refers to ALL my letters, even though I'm the one sending everything in through Interfolio.UVAbme2009 - you can probably answer this for me since you go to UVA too I'm assuming you got that LoR from a prehealth advisor after the "interview." That is the "committee letter" right? Did you submit that or the individual LoR's?
I know that at least one of my science loR's should be really good whereas I don't have a clue what my prehealth advisor wrote... so I'm still debating.
From my understanding, we can't send like a "packet" of LoR's... right?
I only had 3 science letters, and when reading the req's, it said that at least 2 must be science and 1/2 must be from a major. So, from my undergrad, I don't have a non-science but i think its ok.
Hey everyone, this might help some of you with the LOR stuff.
At my school they dont' provide a committee letter, per se, but they do collect all the letters, place them in a packet, and upload them into VirtualEvals. I called NYMC and told them all this and they said that this would count as a "Committee" on the LOR section of the application.
Hope that helped
So they say that Bio, Chem, Phys, etc. counts as `science`. I`m a physiology major, so my science letters are from Physio professors. Does anyone think this will be a problem? Anyway, my pre requisite courses each had 600 or more people in them soooo.......the prof was more like a celebrity instead of a teacher.
I would assume that physio will count under the umbrella of biology for their purposes.
So I submitted the secondary (greatest secondary ever by the way), and I checked my status and it's a tad confusing.
Under "secondary application" it says that it was received, and the payment was received, etc.
Then under that it says in bold (as a title) "Letters of Recommendation received" or something like that.
I know this might sound like a dumb question, but does that mean that the letters have ACTUALLY been received or is that a title? For those of you who definitely wouldnt have the recs in, what does it say?
Thanks!
Letters of Evaluation Received
In order to view your received evaluations your secondary application must first be processed by the Admissions Office.
I only had 3 science letters, and when reading the req's, it said that at least 2 must be science and 1/2 must be from a major. So, from my undergrad, I don't have a non-science but i think its ok.
Copied from their instructions:
So from my understanding, they want 3 LORs total and 2/3 must be science and 1/3 is from your major dept, whether it is science or not.
- If your college does not have a Premedical Committee, Letters of Evaluation from three undergraduate professors including at least two from science (biology, chemistry, physics, biomedical engineering or bioengineering). These must come from faculty who have taught you in class or have supervised independent research for which you have received credit.
- One Letter of Evaluation must be from the department in which you majored, whether science or non-science.
My question is:
If I am a bio major, does that mean I need 3 science LORs?
Thanks!
Can you send in more than 3 letters? I have 5 that's coming from Interfolio, 3 of which fulfills NYMC's requirement
Im gonna go with a no on this one as well....you need at least 2 science profs. and if one of those is not in your major then have at least one other professor who is in your major....otherwise I think a science prof. who is in your major satisfies both qualifications
wow 100 bucks to tell them that I have no relatives that attended there, nice!!!
Hey everyone, this might help some of you with the LOR stuff.
At my school they dont' provide a committee letter, per se, but they do collect all the letters, place them in a packet, and upload them into VirtualEvals. I called NYMC and told them all this and they said that this would count as a "Committee" on the LOR section of the application.
Hope that helped
doesnt do me any goodthankfully they seem to be accepting fee waivers this year, although somewhere else they say they do not.....
So I submitted the secondary (greatest secondary ever by the way), and I checked my status and it's a tad confusing.
Under "secondary application" it says that it was received, and the payment was received, etc.
Then under that it says in bold (as a title) "Letters of Recommendation received" or something like that.
I know this might sound like a dumb question, but does that mean that the letters have ACTUALLY been received or is that a title? For those of you who definitely wouldnt have the recs in, what does it say?
Thanks!
This is what my application status page says:
I'm guessing that doesn't mean the letters were actually received, but it's the section title under which your LOEs will go once they have been received.
Um they just told em the opposite, that I eneded to list each individual writer in the packet. Lol?
doesnt do me any good
thankfully they seem to be accepting fee waivers this year, although somewhere else they say they do not.....
haha seriously? well i guess it's too late for me since i already submitted. i wish everyone in their office was on the same page, though... :-/
freakin rich parents...WHY WONT YOU HELP ME OUT???hahah. that's a bummer, man. but for those non-FAPers, what can you do?
I have 3 science letters, and no non-science too. I just put my third in the non-sci spot and submitted it. =PMy school doesn't have a pre-med committee. It says we need at least two science letters...I have three, so do I still need the non-sci letter? If I don't, would I just put the third sci letter in the spot reserved for this non-sci letter? Advice from anyone who's had experience with this would be appreciated.
did i read it correctly in that if you are using a pre-health committee, you only need to list the school it is coming from? (and can leave all the names of recommenders blank?)
Can someone answer this? This is my assumption as well...
I put N/A...and then 0 for credit hours.ok so i'm doing 2 sciences, 1 non-science and 1 from my volunteer club.
so I put the 1 from my volunteer club under optional 1, just the name and title, but then when i click continue it says I have to enter in the course# and name etc...
So how do you guys enter in the optional letters?