Does the msar show if schools require humanities recommendation letters?

[mrh125]

where could I find out which schools do without having to google like 55+ different med schools requirements?

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[Goro]

Nope, just tells you the minimum and maximum a school will accept.

where could I find out which schools do without having to google like 55+ different med schools requirements?

 

[caffeinemia]

Back in the day when I did it from the Ivy-laced tower, it was

2 Nobel science winners, 1 Nobel literature winner, and 1 other ... usually a MacArthur genius or something. Has that changed or something?

I'm kidding. I would think a non-science letter is generally nice and shows you are somewhat appreciative of knowledge, beauty, thought outside of medicine/science, no?

 

[mrh125]

Nope, just tells you the minimum and maximum a school will accept.

Thanks, I read the FAQ and have been googling schools since. I got a question for you since you really know your stuff 🙂. I have no non-science recommendation letters and like 5 stellar science profs one, some md letters, and a math professor's stellar letter. I've noticed that some schools count math as non-science and only one (creighton) says math is a science major, would it be worth just sending my math recommendation letter as a non-science letter to medical schools? Only other options would probably be some half-baked letter from a non-science prof who i didn't really connect with or not apply at those schools at all. What do you think?

 

[mrh125]

Back in the day when I did it from the Ivy-laced tower, it was

2 Nobel science winners, 1 Nobel literature winner, and 1 other ... usually a MacArthur genius or something. Has that changed or something?

I'm kidding. I would think a non-science letter is generally nice and shows you are somewhat appreciative of knowledge, beauty, thought outside of medicine/science, no?

yea, true i didnt connect with any non-science profs though 🙁 do you think a math letter would count as non-science? some schools do count it as non-science and only creighton explicitly says it doesn't. i dont want to cross off a ton of schools because of this non-science letter req, but at the same time I don't want to waste time applying to schools I will automatically get rejected bc of this issue for. help?

 

[Goro]

Don't know how individual schools handle it. For the COMs, like where Iam at, Math is a science.

I suggest going with those people you trust to write the best possible letters.

Thanks, I read the FAQ and have been googling schools since. I got a question for you since you really know your stuff 🙂. I have no non-science recommendation letters and like 5 stellar science profs one, some md letters, and a math professor's stellar letter. I've noticed that some schools count math as non-science and only one (creighton) says math is a science major, would it be worth just sending my math recommendation letter as a non-science letter to medical schools? Only other options would probably be some half-baked letter from a non-science prof who i didn't really connect with or not apply at those schools at all. What do you think?