Hi All,
I will be starting a new job in a new lab starting August 2011, after I submit applications for MD/PhD programs for the 2012 cycle. This job is a great opportunity to be a leacturer at a good, young research university and work in a lab that investigates something I am interested in learning more about so that I can do my PhD research in the same field.
But, I know that as applicants we are told to submit a LOR from our current research advisor. When I submit apps I will not have worked for this individual, though he was on the commitee that hired me to the lecturship....so I presume he must have a good opinion of me, and he knows of me peripherally via my previous work.
I have LORs committed from 5 research professors that I have worked with for more than a year (5 different labs....I'm not fresh out of undergraduate, but I look like I am 😉, a non-science professor (thesis advisor), and a doctor I worked with for 2 years.....that is already a lot of letters and already more than some schools accept.
So, do I ask for a letter to include from my future boss? Or do I just explain in essays and interviews? Thanks.
I will be starting a new job in a new lab starting August 2011, after I submit applications for MD/PhD programs for the 2012 cycle. This job is a great opportunity to be a leacturer at a good, young research university and work in a lab that investigates something I am interested in learning more about so that I can do my PhD research in the same field.
But, I know that as applicants we are told to submit a LOR from our current research advisor. When I submit apps I will not have worked for this individual, though he was on the commitee that hired me to the lecturship....so I presume he must have a good opinion of me, and he knows of me peripherally via my previous work.
I have LORs committed from 5 research professors that I have worked with for more than a year (5 different labs....I'm not fresh out of undergraduate, but I look like I am 😉, a non-science professor (thesis advisor), and a doctor I worked with for 2 years.....that is already a lot of letters and already more than some schools accept.
So, do I ask for a letter to include from my future boss? Or do I just explain in essays and interviews? Thanks.
