LORs and Shadowing

[shaq786]

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1. I was a former pre-med student and at our school we have a premed office where you set up a premed file and get recommendations from different professors. All recommendations get COMPILED into one COMPOSITE Letter of Recommendation when you send your application into Med school. However, I decided to go the pharmacy route and the pre-med office has told me that I can use these recommendations for pharmacy school. So do you think they will write the pharmacy schools a composite letter of recommendation? Will a pharmacy school accept a composite letter of recommendation?

2. How do you get a shadow position? Do you just walk into a walgreens or hospital asking to shadow? Can I do a voluntary-based shadow? This way they dont have to pay me for standing around looking at the pharmacist.

Thanks

 

[patmcd]

1) I doubt they will accept a composit lor. I would think pharmcas would count that as one lor. The only way to know if your premed office will do a composit lor would be to ask them. Personally I would just find out which professors were contributing to the composit lor and ask them to each write one on their own.

2) Yes you pretty much go and ask if you can shadow a pharmacist. Some places do and some don't allow you to. Hospitals usually require a bit more paperwork to shadow due to various laws and such. Shadowing is always a non-paid thing, hence the term shadowing.

 

[imprecious]

2) You should try asking private-owned pharmacies if you can shadow there. It'll probably be easier to get in than at a large branched pharmacy.