LOR now or later??

[ebasappa]

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Hey everyone! Alright so basically, I really love Ochem so I decided to volunteer in an Ochem lab with the Lab Manager at my school. I help him create new Ochem labs for the upcoming fall undergrad as well as write it.

I have two questions:
1] Does this count as non-clinical volunteering? Is it worth listing on the application?

2] I plan on asking him for a LOR, the only thing is I am just going to be a junior after the summer. We stop working together in about a month and I feel like now is the best time for him to write it. Is there a way he could write the LOR now and I could save it somehow?


Thanks for any help 👍

 

[theseeker4]

Hey everyone! Alright so basically, I really love Ochem so I decided to volunteer in an Ochem lab with the Lab Manager at my school. I help him create new Ochem labs for the upcoming fall undergrad as well as write it.

I have two questions:
1] Does this count as non-clinical volunteering? Is it worth listing on the application?

2] I plan on asking him for a LOR, the only thing is I am just going to be a junior after the summer. We stop working together in about a month and I feel like now is the best time for him to write it. Is there a way he could write the LOR now and I could save it somehow?


Thanks for any help 👍

If you neither got paid to do it nor got class credit, list it as non-clinical volunteering, but only if you spent substantial hours on it. (helping set up a lab for 2 hours, for example, wouldn't be worth listing).

Don't ask for the LOR now, but continue to visit and chat with the prof throughout the year. That way you stay in contact with him and develop even more of a relationship with him to allow him to write a good LOR for you. You also may receive other offers of different opportunities from him if you stay in contact.