Father a dentist - letter of recommendation?

[eldirty]

My father is a dentist and is ultimately the person who knows me the best. I have shadowed/assisted many dentist but none as much as I have with my father. Is there any issue related to having a letter of recommendation from you father? I already have 5 letters from dentists not including my father. How many is enough and what would be considered overkill?

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[crazy4clana]

A letter of rec from your father is pretty much useless and adcomms will probably render it invalid. 5 dentist recs is overkill. Adcomms usually want a committee letter/2 profs and 1 or 2 dentists.

 

[Regmata]

My father is a dentist and is ultimately the person who knows me the best. I have shadowed/assisted many dentist but none as much as I have with my father. Is there any issue related to having a letter of recommendation from you father? I already have 5 letters from dentists not including my father. How many is enough and what would be considered overkill?

I wouldnt do it. His relationship to you takes away from the credibility of the letter and you have too many LORs from dentists as is.

 

[UNR.Grad]

My father is a dentist and is ultimately the person who knows me the best. I have shadowed/assisted many dentist but none as much as I have with my father. Is there any issue related to having a letter of recommendation from you father? I already have 5 letters from dentists not including my father. How many is enough and what would be considered overkill?

Five letters from dentists = overkill. Do all five of these dentists really know you and are able to write a thoughtful, personal letter on your behalf? When it comes to letters 4 quality letters >>> 10 decent letters.

 

[poopypants]

It would be considered bias. Sorry!

 

[SMCohen]

Considering that AADSAS will only accept and process 4 letters of rec, you can really only afford to send in 1 from a dentist (unless you have a committee letter from your school, as opposed to individual letters from profs).

 

[DMDreaming]

Considering that AADSAS will only accept and process 4 letters of rec, you can really only afford to send in 1 from a dentist (unless you have a committee letter from your school, as opposed to individual letters from profs).

From AADSAS:
"Applicants may submit a maximum of four individual Letters of Evaluation or one Committee Letter/Report plus the option of one additional individual Letter of Evaluation." So, even with a committee letter, the applicant would have to cough up additional postage to send an additionaly LORs to each school. Money aside, I think 5 LORs from dentists is extreme overkill and might even turn the admission's committees off since they would have to process all the additional submissions.​

 

[cowbuddha]

Although it would be pretty funny if your father gave you a bad rec...

 

[jdoc04]

I think it's obvious what the SDN community thinks of a LOR from a family member and I agree. Just put something about your father being a dentist in your essay if in fact it played a large part in your decision to pursue dentistry.

 

[SoCalDent]

Have your dad call his alma mater for you but thats it. He doesn't have pull any where else (unless he has some connections) just being a dentist.

 

[azi]

hi
I seee you got accepted to baylor..that is also my goal...I wrote DAT and got:
PAT 18
qr: 16
RC 17
BIO 21
CHEM 21
ORG 18
AA 19
TS 20.

i WAS WONDERING If I should write it again.
can you give me some input

 

[doc toothache]

Did you ask your dad for an lor or are you just assuming he will be willing to write you one?

 

[threeblindmice]

Some schools specifically say that the letters of evaluation cannot come from anyone related to you through blood or marriage (ASDOH comes to mind). I only remember them because they made it abundantly clear. Most schools probably assume that you wouldn't make the mistake of having your letters come from family members. I don't know if you've applied for a job before, but putting family as your references is not very impressive. I assume LOE's are the same. Also pick the dentist that knows you the best out of your stack of five and use his. Five letters that say "this person shadowed me for 20 hours and seemed nice, they'll be a good dentist" isn't going to have more sway than one letter that says that.

 

[SeattleRDH]

Did you ask your dad for an lor or are you just assuming he will be willing to write you one?

You are so negative!

 

[doc toothache]

You are so negative!

Gosh, with such an invitation, who could resist?

 

[KoughDai]

My father is a dentist and is ultimately the person who knows me the best. I have shadowed/assisted many dentist but none as much as I have with my father. Is there any issue related to having a letter of recommendation from you father? I already have 5 letters from dentists not including my father. How many is enough and what would be considered overkill?

This is the stupidest post I've seen...ever...on any forum...in my life.

Have you researched what ANY schools want?

Most schools want a variety of letters from dentists, biology/physics/chemistry professors, etc...Hell AADSAS won't even accept 5 letters of recommendation. Why would you want to submit 5 letters from dentists anyway? That's like going to the shoe store and buying 5 of the exact same pair of Keds...yeah...KEDS!

If I'm on the admissions committee, a letter of recommendation from somebody's father isn't going to work for the obvious reasons (bias being the primary), but don't you think the adcom is going to step back and say this:

"Is this guy for real? Submitting a letter of recommendation from his father? What an idiot. His profile is good, but how stupid must you be to submit this. Did he really think this was going to work? This person lacks all common sense and would be giving root canals where fillings would suffice. DENIED. "

You should probably re-think this one.

KoughDai aka "Da Princess"

 

[UltimateHombre]

This is the stupidest post I've seen...ever...on any forum...in my life.

Have you researched what ANY schools want?

Most schools want a variety of letters from dentists, biology/physics/chemistry professors, etc...Hell AADSAS won't even accept 5 letters of recommendation. Why would you want to submit 5 letters from dentists anyway? That's like going to the shoe store and buying 5 of the exact same pair of Keds...yeah...KEDS!

If I'm on the admissions committee, a letter of recommendation from somebody's father isn't going to work for the obvious reasons (bias being the primary), but don't you think the adcom is going to step back and say this:

"Is this guy for real? Submitting a letter of recommendation from his father? What an idiot. His profile is good, but how stupid must you be to submit this. Did he really think this was going to work? This person lacks all common sense and would be giving root canals where fillings would suffice. DENIED. "

You are quickly building your reputation.... i officially knight you sir douche... or "da douche" if you prefer...

 

[redchesus]

Uhh... it's kind of given that any letters of rec cannot come from your friends or family. The reasoning is pretty obvious.

 

[KoughDai]

You are quickly building your reputation.... i officially knight you sir douche... or "da douche" if you prefer...

Building my reputation as what? A person who gives objective advice and criticisms based on common sense and facts?

The question is absurd, and anyone with the tiniest bit of common sense knows that.

As for your EXTREMELY clever nickname, I will refrain from commentary.

KoughDai aka "Da Princess"

 

[alanan84]

Calm down everyone, this thread is over 2 years old, randomly resurrected by someone posting a "what are my chances?" question.

And the OP apparently got into multiple schools.

 

[UltimateHombre]

Building my reputation as what? A person who gives objective advice and criticisms based on common sense and facts?

The question is absurd, and anyone with the tiniest bit of common sense knows that.

The thing is there is a big difference between offering objective advice and criticisms vs. being insulting and rude.

Now if you were a dentist (or even a d-student), a member of this forum for several years, or had thousands of posts and experience to offer, things might be different. However none of the above is true... so not only are your comments insulting and rude, but there is no experience or expertise to back them up...

Furthermore, every time i see you post, they are always negative and not helpful... and seeing that you have only made 11 posts or so... not impressive.

Sorry to all for going off on a tangent on a resurrected pointless thread...

 

[Brettla16]

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