Committee LORs

[MountainClimber94]

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Does anyone have experience with this? I having been working at a teaching hospital for a few years now and have developed relationships with a handful of the faculty there. I want to ask them if they could write me a committee letter rather than individual LORs. In addition, I have developed a mentor-mentee relationship with the president of the training site. I will be asking him for a LOR but I think his would be better off as an individual LOR rather than as part of a committee LOR. @Goro

Thoughts Please!

 

[Peach Newport]

Does anyone have experience with this? I having been working at a teaching hospital for a few years now and have developed relationships with a handful of the faculty there. I want to ask them if they could write me a committee letter rather than individual LORs. In addition, I have developed a mentor-mentee relationship with the president of the training site. I will be asking him for a LOR but I think his would be better off as an individual LOR rather than as part of a committee LOR. @Goro

Thoughts Please!

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work like that.

A “committee letter” means that you need to go through your undergrad pre-med advising committee. I don’t think you can get a “committee letter” from your workplace or mentors. That actually seems vaguely inappropriate to me.

Your committee letter can contain letters from a doctor you’ve worked with, or from mentors sometimes.

If you’re a few years out of undergrad, probably best to try to see if your undergrad will write one for you. If not, do individual letters.

 

[Robin-jay]

I went through chemistry graduate school so I didn't ever have an undergrad. pre-med committee.

I had my chemistry advisor as an individual letter, along with professors I had during my undergrad.

But it would be interesting to know if those could be somehow converted into a committee letter, just like OP is mentioning.

 

[Goro]

Does anyone have experience with this? I having been working at a teaching hospital for a few years now and have developed relationships with a handful of the faculty there. I want to ask them if they could write me a committee letter rather than individual LORs. In addition, I have developed a mentor-mentee relationship with the president of the training site. I will be asking him for a LOR but I think his would be better off as an individual LOR rather than as part of a committee LOR. @Goro

Thoughts Please!

Agree with Peach...it doesn't work like that.

You don't need a committee LOR, even for MD schools.