Letters of Recc

[Giggles411]

Hi all,
I have a somewhat general question. How many letters of Recc are we required to get from Proffs (I went to a large Public University where we didn't have a "Pre-med Committee" which writes us letters). And, are they all suppose to be from Science Professors? Thanks a lot!

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[Kfire326]

Every school has different requirements. Some want 2 science, some want 2 science + 1 non science... check with them.

 

[Surf Rx]

I got the attached pdf file from another thread a while back. Not sure how accurate it is, but it gives you an idea.

 

[gujuDoc]

Hi all,
I have a somewhat general question. How many letters of Recc are we required to get from Proffs (I went to a large Public University where we didn't have a "Pre-med Committee" which writes us letters). And, are they all suppose to be from Science Professors? Thanks a lot!

I don't know if this is true everywhere, but the general consensus at Fl. schools seems to be the following:

2 science professors
1 nonscience professors

Those are the minimal.

Some will allow you to send 1 or 2 character letters from someone like a research PI, a volunteer coordinator, a job manager, etc.

Research PIs generally don't count as science professor letters. You should try to obtain science professor letters from people who have had you as a student.

To get a good idea of who is a good letter writer, try to talk to others in your school and find out who were good professor LOR writers, or try to figure out who you had a good repretoire with.

 

[gujuDoc]

I got the attached pdf file from another thread a while back. Not sure how accurate it is, but it gives you an idea.

Can we get this stickied pretty please with sugar on top??



Thanks buddy. I'm going to save that and email it to myself for future use.

 

[ggman]

I think you are covered with two science and one non-science rec. If you have significant EC's, you might want to include a rec from the person in charge (a lab PI for example). Just make sure you don't go over five with your total number of recs.