So, I'm a Texas resident and I finished my TMDSAS application about 2 weeks ago. Currently filling out the AACOMAS application; in jumping around the sections, I come to the final page, where one has to select the schools they want to apply for.
I come to SDN, not knowing anything about any school (besides TCOM), so I go onto the thread about which campus is the prettiest (lol), and I use that as a starting point, googling the schools that are in the thread.
My question is about the letters of recommendations requirement that all of the schools need.
I'm 24, graduated from Texas A&M back in 2012. The pre-health committee here needs 3 total letters of recommendation, regardless of source. Back in 2012, I had 3 letters: one from a science professor, one from an English professor, and one outside source. Now, in 2014, I can still call upon that outside source for her letter, and I have an additional letter from an MD that I worked for. So that makes 2 letters, total.
It's highly improbable that I can get a third letter of recommendation to fulfill my committee's requirement of 3 (since doing so would make any application pretty late - I'd have to ask for one and the committee person of one would have to write her letter), and more importantly, it's impossible that I get a science professor / faculty member to give me that third letter, as the one source that I had is not at the school anymore. And I don't have any real connections to science faculty since it's been 2 years.
Currently though, I'm enrolled in a Master's program at A&M where I can take (hard) science classes, so I can get letters that way, but it would have to be for next cycle.
My question is: has anyone been in my particular situation? I looked at Nova, WVSOM, OU-HCOM, and Western U, so I haven't looked at every school yet, but I'm sure most of them have similar requirements, of needing at least a letter from science faculty. Do you think any school will accept a letter from an MD and a letter from a non-science faculty member?
Of those schools I looked up, they either need an MD/DO letter and/or a letter from science faculty and/or a pre-health committee letter.
I come to SDN, not knowing anything about any school (besides TCOM), so I go onto the thread about which campus is the prettiest (lol), and I use that as a starting point, googling the schools that are in the thread.
My question is about the letters of recommendations requirement that all of the schools need.
I'm 24, graduated from Texas A&M back in 2012. The pre-health committee here needs 3 total letters of recommendation, regardless of source. Back in 2012, I had 3 letters: one from a science professor, one from an English professor, and one outside source. Now, in 2014, I can still call upon that outside source for her letter, and I have an additional letter from an MD that I worked for. So that makes 2 letters, total.
It's highly improbable that I can get a third letter of recommendation to fulfill my committee's requirement of 3 (since doing so would make any application pretty late - I'd have to ask for one and the committee person of one would have to write her letter), and more importantly, it's impossible that I get a science professor / faculty member to give me that third letter, as the one source that I had is not at the school anymore. And I don't have any real connections to science faculty since it's been 2 years.
Currently though, I'm enrolled in a Master's program at A&M where I can take (hard) science classes, so I can get letters that way, but it would have to be for next cycle.
My question is: has anyone been in my particular situation? I looked at Nova, WVSOM, OU-HCOM, and Western U, so I haven't looked at every school yet, but I'm sure most of them have similar requirements, of needing at least a letter from science faculty. Do you think any school will accept a letter from an MD and a letter from a non-science faculty member?
Of those schools I looked up, they either need an MD/DO letter and/or a letter from science faculty and/or a pre-health committee letter.
