LOE's from community college professors???

[UCSD6]

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Hi, I was just wondering if getting LOE's from commmunity college professors would be ok. I'm having a tough time getting my last LOE and was wondering if it's acceptable. Also, I have a professor from a nutrition class at UCSD that willing to write me an LOR, but I know when people think nutrition they think that u learn that a tomatoe is a fruit. But this class is actually part of the biochemistry department of classes and discussed digestive systems, enzymes, macromolecules, deficiencies, diseases, metabolic pathways.....
Any opinions/thoughts would be very helpful.
thanks

 

[AnInconvntTooth]

My opinion is that a letter from a community college professor who knows you really well is better than a university professor of a 800 student course who only knows you by your student ID number and GPA. You want evaluations that can actually speak about your character, persistence, etc.

 

[doc toothache]

My opinion is that a letter from a community college professor who knows you really well is better than a university professor of a 800 student course who only knows you by your student ID number and GPA. You want evaluations that can actually speak about your character, persistence, etc.

By this argument an lor from a high school teacher would be infinitely better.

 

[UCSD6]

so far two conflicting reports, Just wondering if anyone has actually used LOE's from a CC. Is it common or not???
thanks for the insight

 

[Near]

By this argument an lor from a high school teacher would be infinitely better.

True, but let's remember the OP's only options are in higher education. With that in mind, a professor that knows you better (from high education)> one that doesn't, regardless of whether they're from a four-year or two-year.

 

[Vicviper]

Both of my science letters were from CC professors, and I think it actually really helped my acceptances. I also do strongly agree that if your CC professors can write you a great letter because they know you much more personally, the letter would be by definition better than a letter from a professor who never really knew your name in the first place because you were in his 500 student biochem class.

I keep hearing about people who have no one to write them letters because they go to a big school, and although they did well in their classes, never really went to office hours much, and so have no real connection to the professor. Not to say it's impossible to get a good letter at a big school - from a class of 300 I thought I was able to get to connect with a professor well enough through the lab section that he would have written me a lgreat letter, as well as a few other professors as well, mostly lab though, so smaller class sizes.