Letter of recommendation

[buruburudoku]

I'm applying to a few PT program this fall and have a question regarding the letter of recommendation. Actually this is my first posting so please take it with warm regards.
Right now I'm going to stony brook university as a bio major but I am a transfer student from a community college and took some of my pre-requisites from there. Personally, I found the bio professors at stony not really personally approachable because it's a big lecture class (usually 2-300 hundred students) so I'm pretty sure this professor wouldn't have a slight idea who I am. Whereas this professor I took A&P class together at the community college, I visited him a few times and have a feeling that he would write me a recommendation letter with more stuff to talk about me,
So my question is,

Would I show the pt schools a better impression with the letter of recommendation from my current college (stony brook) which will look just typically the same as others, or should i get it from the one I took at the community college ? I got As for both classes.

Thank you very much and appreciate any comments!! Good luck all of you !!😀

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[hipnotic88]

I would get them from Stony Brooke

 

[taurusgrl326]

I think you should get ur LOR from the professor at the community college. It seems as if you have a better relationship with the professor there than from Stony Brooke. The professor would be able to write you a better LOR because he knows you personally compared to Stony Brooke where it's a big class and would just write a generalized LOR not really showing who you are.

I know how you feel because I had a lot of courses in big lectures ranging from 200-400 people and it sucks cuz sometimes the professor has too many people to deal with so they don't give a crap about you (But there's always exceptional passionate nice ones of course haha)

 

[jess818]

you should def. get the letter from the professor who knows you better. that way, the letter will come across as genuine compared to a generic one that the other professor will be forced to write due to their lack of a relationship with you. no one would look down on a professor at a CC-a professor is a professor. the LORs are meant to have someone who knows you describe your capabilities so you should have someone who knows what they are describe them for you.

 

[markelmarcel]

I agree with obtaining the letter from the professor whom you know better. Also, I always tried to make myself known to my professors, even if it IS a large class (at the college I went to it was usually between 90-120 students) and I've found that I had better relationships when I had the professor for both lecture AND lab. I was able to make myself known in lab, which translated into them knowing me in lecture.

Then again, I'm weird, I always wanted my professors to know who I was, and that I took my classes seriously because at the end of the semester if I was borderline between an A and B, I wanted that professor to think, "Wow that Kala girl was a really nice girl, always on time, etc" and feel more apt to bump me up than, "I have no clue who this student is, so who cares!"