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What exactly is a committee letter?
Committee Letter
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mellon977 said:
A committee letter is a recommendation letter compiled by the premed/predent office. The premedical committee will review your undergraduate file (i.e. GPA, BCPM GPA, extracurricular activities, interviewing skills, etc) and determine whether they feel you are a competitive applicant to med/dent school. If they feel that you are, they will compile an extensive letter recommending you to your school(s) of choice. In the letter they will include whether they highly recommend you, recommend you, or recommend you with reservation. Not all undergrads do this, usually only the ones with strong premed/predent programs. Hope I helped!
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My recommendation letters were done using the committee system. Basically, I had three professors write recommendation letters that was sent to the committee. Aside from the rec letters, I had to submit a short application, personal statement, transcript and had an interview, which were used by the committee to draft an overall recommendation letter. If your undergrad school has such a committee, I would strongly encourage you to use it because you get to have sort of a mock interview, and being sponsored by your undergrad college gives you slightly better credentials. Plus, the committe packages the recommendation letters nicely, and sends it out for you in a timely manner. The committee process in my school costs $200, but I thought it was well worth the money.
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dental school adcoms strongly prefer committee letters so if you've got the option, definitely do it! 👍
the most important thing to remember however is that it is quality not quantity! the letter has to be a slam dunk or else it isn't worth including.
e.g., don't ask your dentist to write a letter of rec unless you did significant shadowing/assisting**. a generic letter like "so-and-so shadowed me a few days and asked some really interesting questions" isn't going to impress anybody!
**note: some schools require letters from dentists
the most important thing to remember however is that it is quality not quantity! the letter has to be a slam dunk or else it isn't worth including.
e.g., don't ask your dentist to write a letter of rec unless you did significant shadowing/assisting**. a generic letter like "so-and-so shadowed me a few days and asked some really interesting questions" isn't going to impress anybody!
**note: some schools require letters from dentists
