LOR at time of submittion. And a side question for bonus marks

[sheepz]

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Hey guys,

For those of you with prior experience or better reading skills,

I was wondering if we would need to have all our LOR at the time of submission.
I will be able to get 1 LOR from a Primary investigator I work with and another from a summer employer but the LOC from an optometrists have been difficult because although I shadowed 2 ODs for 20 hours and 12 hours. The second OD reluctantly agreed to fill out the LOR. I was wondering if you would need all your LORs in before your application is considered and if not would it be better to just submit with 2 for the sake of submitting mid September?
Also it seems when I bring up shadowing. The most I've been given is about 3 days so I question how generous of a rec these ODs are able to give.


Bonus question:
Also anyone know which universities are friendly towards Canadians/international because most schools do accept, some seem to have daunting numbers such as SCCO. Is it worthwhile to apply to some of those that only accept a couple?

I'm an average student (3.4-3.5 gpa) from a top tier Canandian University in the biological sciences.

All help is greatly appreciated!

 

[countryOD]

I called OptomCAS about the lor thing and they said you don't need all your letters in before you submit. Fortunately, all mine came in right after I asked this question so it didn't matter after all. I think the earlier the better as far as submission is concerned, complete or not, but obviously finish as quickly as possible.

As for the Canadian friendliness question, I know a few that went to SCO and they weren't great candidates.

 

[sheepz]

Oh really?
I wasn't planning to apply for SCO because it seems the stats for the latest year seems to report 0 international students

 

[Rain Clouds]

We have a LOT of amazing Canadian students here at ICO! 🙂

 

[missbrightside]

I believe NECO has the most international students of all. (I might be wrong lol but i know it has a ton! look at the school stats online)

 

[Rain Clouds]

To be specific, ICO has the highest number of international students, NECO and Pacific both have relatively high percentages of international students. Pennsylvania and NOVA are the two other relatively popular programs for international students.

 

[sheepz]

Thanks everyone! all your answers have been informative

 

[tbair200]

does anyone know why certain schools attract more international students? Im just curious why that may be