AADSAS Letters of recommendation

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What would be the "safest" set of LOR's?
- having two science professors, one non-science professor, and one dentist or
- having three science professors and dentist?

I'm guessing that three science professor would be the better choice, but after thinking about it, couldn't a LOR from a non-science professor possibly give the adcoms a different perspective of me, and show them that I am highly capable in another academic field besides the sciences...? I may be wrong, so I'd love to hear everyone's opinions about this.

Also, once I give AADSAS the emails of the ones who will write my LOR's and e-submit my application, I won't be able to add/remove the emails at a later time, correct?

 

[BeaverLover]

I would go with the first option

 

[changtw]

I think it ultimately depends on which schools you end up applying to. A few of my schools required LORs from 3 science professors, so I opted to request 3 professors and 1 dentist. The majority of schools, though, only require LORs from 2 science professors. Some schools allow you to send them LORs directly to their Admissions Office. In that case, you can go with option #1, and for schools that require more than 2, you can find out if you can submit them separately.

If you feel like the non-science professor knows your personality more thoroughly than a 3rd science professor, I say go for it. I'd just decide based on whichever professor knows you the best.

Once you log in the recommender's information, they immediately get an email notification. However, I was under the impression that the applicant has the option to remove/add recommenders as needed (max 4). I've seen posts on SDN involving recommenders who went MIA, so students had to find someone else.

 

[plusalpha]

Thank you all for your very helpful responses! I'm bumping this thread to hear more about what other people think.

In addition, so we CAN add/remove my recommenders' emails even after hitting e-submit?? I know that we can't edit our list of EC's, so I just assumed that we can't edit our recommenders' emails either.... thanks for this information