LOR only from post-bac?

[megan0430]

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Hello!
I hope everyone's application cycle is off to a good start.

I, on the other hand, seem to have a LOR problem.
I was able to get a good committee letter from the post-bac program that I attended for 1 year. It is an official pre-med post-bac program, although I didn't get a degree from here.
I thought this would suffice for LORs from professors (I have some personal letters as well), but I started to wonder if it's bad that I don't have any LORs from my undergraduate school. I even found out that one of the schools that I am applying to (Loyola) requires at least one LOR from undergraduate (if you can't get any meaningful LORs from undergraduate school, they want a letter stating so).
I graduated from my undergraduate school in 3 years due to financial issues, and it was a huge school (UIUC) so I really didn't get to know any professors enough to ask them for letters. Plus, it has been over 2 years since I graduated, so I am pretty certain that they won't remember me.

Do you guys think that I should still find a way to get at least 1 LOR from the undergraduate school? Or am I okay with the committee letter form post-bac that I have right now?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!

 

[juliuspepperwood]

Usually schools have a letter of rec requirement that states either a committee letter OR specific letter requirements (e.g. 2 science 1 non-science etc.) If you have the committee letter you usually don't need to hit those specific letter requirements. I definitely didn't catch that my app last cycle, so while my committee packet includes several additional LORs I had 1 so-so science letter that I won't be including this year.

I just checked Loyola's site and they are fine with just your committee packet, since part 3 which talks about needing a letter from each undergraduate institution is after the "OR" in part 1 saying a premed committee is sufficient. That is just my take on it though, I would definitely recommend calling them, Loyola is pretty helpful on the phone.