Hello, I was wondering how important LORs are. I have an amazing one from my moms Oncologist. He was my my moms oncologist before she passed away. He saw me at the hospital 10 hours a day for months while going through school and still working. I did most of my shadowing with him and he told me that I have nothing left to prove to him and that he was nothing but impressed with me on how I handled everything going on my first two years. I still feel like I could have done better because I only had a 3.2 GPA after those two years. It did have a crazy strong upward trend. I was wondering if a LOR like that could help my poor GPA. Or is DO schools the only way to go at this point? I don't have any problems with DO schools I just want to be realistic in my applications so I get accepted.Thanks!
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They don't have the magic qualities that pre-meds think that they do, and clinician letters 99.99% of the time say nice things about you.
bad LORs are rare will will break a candidate. A pool of good LORs tend to get noticed, but won't push a mediocre candidate past the II or accept line.
What's your cGPA now? Have you taken then MCAT?
bad LORs are rare will will break a candidate. A pool of good LORs tend to get noticed, but won't push a mediocre candidate past the II or accept line.
What's your cGPA now? Have you taken then MCAT?
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Sorry, but a strong shadowing letter will not compensate for a low GPA, however two years showing a steep upward grade trend can work wonders after a slow start, along with supportive academic letters from faculty who have taught you.
