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deleted738762
Waiting on my professor to submit my letter, otherwise I will. IDK if they will now it's been a month. So if they don't do it I have to wait till next year.
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You can't get another letter?
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Submit and contact your professor. I had one tell me a few weeks ago he forgot (committee). Don't be annoying about it but maybe a friendly "Heeyyyy...uhm...my letter?".
When did you ask for one too?
When did you ask for one too?
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deleted738762
No, I asked another professor but I got ignored. I asked this professor in person so I am still optimistic. Otherwise, I'll just wait until next year and move on.
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deleted738762
I asked a month and half ago. Then sent another e-mail not too long ago. I am not going to submit, and get rejected all because I didn't have enough letters.
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Work on getting this letter as hard as you can. That's a terribly unfortunate reason to have to take a gap year. Be persistent.
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Can you go in person? The professor who forgot mine is notorious for not checking e-mails lol.
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deleted738762
Oh this professor checks e-mails. Plus they don't teach now so they won't be in office hours.
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deleted738762
You're right. I'll give him another week until my DAT.
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deleted738762
I don't think I'm getting it. He keeps ignoring me. He lied to my face.
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Dude are you sure there's no other letter you could possibly get? From an employer or anything at all? Something is better than nothing 🙁
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No, that was my science professor. I literally have no one else. If he would have just said no from the start I would have been fine, but I literally got played. The funny thing is I literally talked to him for 20 minutes, and he told this and that for dental schools and was so enthusiastic about it. I would never have thought this would happen.
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I hate the fact I need to rely on other people to apply to dental schools and then they pull this ****. I don't hate the professor for doing what they did, but I'm just annoyed at the fact that it happened and the professor played me. Imagine knowing a professor for a full year, having a great relationship with them, then they say they will write a letter for you and then they betray you. It's so frustrating. Now I need to wait another year because of one professor. I literally gave them 3 and a half months.
Just going to move on. Don't even feel like posting on sdn anymore.
Just going to move on. Don't even feel like posting on sdn anymore.
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One professor I had literally LIED in his letter about certain things I did EC wise (he emailed it to me which he shouldn't have done to begin with). Thankfully I saw it otherwise it would have decimated me. He said I did x or y meanwhile he obviously knew I didn't as we had a decent relationship. Point is you're not alone man. I wish you had somebody else to ask.
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I'm so sorry 🙁 that is genuinely awful of your professor and you should let him know what the consequences of his actions are. I really hope some other alternative for you pops up but maybe it was meant to be like this and there's something better in store for you
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The point is don't trust no one. I have to put my future in someone else's hands and hope I don't get screwed. Thanks for all the responses. Goodbye.
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schmoob
Do you have anything in writing saying he will write you a letter? If so, I would write him a professional letter and play the email game. Something along the lines of:
"Professor, after multiple attempts to contact you to follow up on the letter you promised to write on XX/XX/XXXX, you have not responded nor given me any updates regarding my status.
The consequences of this letter not being submitted will be severe for me, because of XYZ. If you had no intention of submitting this letter for me, I would have appreciated if you would have told me right away. If you changed your mind about writing me the letter, the right thing to do would have been to tell me right away. Instead I have been waiting for X amount of time, and my entire application is waiting for your letter.
To be honest, I am incredibly disappointed in you Professor. I truly expected more. This is a poor reflection on the department, and the University.
Sincerely,
BioTic"
And most importantly, CC the chair of the department. If they are the chair, CC the person above them. Let them hear it from the person above them.
I dunno, maybe it's not the "right" thing to do, or considered "professional," but screw that guy, man. He apparently doesn't have the integrity to follow through with his promises or even the decency to not ignore you, so why shouldn't you let him know how you feel? Or let his boss know what they're doing? What's the worst that can happen, he won't write the letter? At that point I wouldn't even take a letter from him even if he wrote it.
Then again, I'm an a**hole so maybe this is one piece of advice from me that would be better not listened to lol.
Either way, I'm sorry you're going through this. I hope you can get this figured out man.
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deleted738762
That's a nice response, but even though I got screwed, I would feel bad telling that to someone a few days later. I don't know exactly why they didn't do it, and what might be going on in their life, so I don't want to bother them. However, they do need a consequence, but I'm not willing to give someone three times my my age that response even though I think they deserve it. I just want to know why, then that would justify my response to them, and right now I don't know why.
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deleted738762
Logging off sdn for a while, want to get this all sorted and figure out what to do next. I'll tell you this though, the only thing that pisses me off more than anything is that no matter how hard I worked throughout college, my career literally relies on someone's else's hands at the end of the day. Now, I get to wait a whole year. A whole year based off one professor not writing a letter.
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schmoob
Screw him. He didn't feel bad for you, right? He doesn't care much about the consequences you face based on his (non)actions. Don't give him the sympathy that he failed to provide you. He literally avoided spending 20 minutes writing a letter for you that would impact your life.
Seriously man, do something. If you don't, no one else will do it for you. This is YOUR life. You've worked too hard and gond too far to just stop because you feel uncomfortable calling someone out who doesn't give a crap about what they are doing to you.
I really hope you get this sorted out soon while you still have the chance.
