Is it ok to get recommendation letters from professors in classes you retake? Also, does anyone else here get questioned about retaking classes a lot? My advisor and others seem baffled that I'm retaking classes I already have credit for.
LORs from professors in classes you retook
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If you received an A in that class, and the professor is willing to write a strong letter on your behalf then go for it. Premed advisers are as helpful as a brick wall, don't listen to them, this is why you have all the online resources such as SDN.
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See second post above, advisors may (but not always) have a bachelor's in something. Sometimes they are grad students in an MBA program and just student workers that are there on the cheap. They may know almost nothing about med admissions other than the single sheet of paper they hand out "So you want to be a physician" to every student that says med school.
There are exceptions, but they are often at schools with med school and that have a dedicated pre-health advisor who does nothing but work to get students into med/PA/pharm/etc school. That said, you should avoid unneeded retakes. Retake courses with F/D/and sometimes C's and study hard so you don't do o-chem, bio, physics, etc numerous times, as that looks really really bad.
It's fine to get a letter from any science professor that will write you a strong letter!
