Loyola's request for specific LOR...

[Kiara08]

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So Loyola asks for a letter from a faculty member at every school that you attended if you have transferred during undergrad and says that you can submit a letter if you feel no one could supply a meaningful evaluation.

So my questions are....

(1) I attended a big 10 university for a semester as a freshman and transferred out at the end of the fall semester. I only took the huge freshman classes and didn't really get to know any of the professors. Do you think this would count as a situation where I couldn't get a meaningful evaluation?

(2) I attended a few other schools in high school through special programs at my school or mail in courses. This technically wasn't during my "undergraduate career" but I did get undergraduate credit. Do I need a letter from this?

(3) I took a basic nursing assistant course at a local community college as a sophomore. Do I need a letter from this program?


Thanks for all your help!!!!

 

[146233]

1.) I believe this would count as a situation in which you'd be unlikely to obtain a meaningful evaluation.

2.) Right, you weren't an undergrad yet. I wouldn't sweat it.

3.) No, you didn't transfer to or from the community college, it was just for a single course.

Good luck!

 

[Phoenix.]

Could someone please post the exact language of Loyola's LOR requirements? I'd just like to get a jump start on whether this would apply to study at another undergrad university for a junior year (but where I did not actually transfer but was a guest student)? And if they require a separate letter from my grad school from 8 years ago. Etc. Thanks.

 

[146233]

Could someone please post the exact language of Loyola's LOR requirements? I'd just like to get a jump start on whether this would apply to study at another undergrad university for a junior year (but where I did not actually transfer but was a guest student)? And if they require a separate letter from my grad school from 8 years ago. Etc. Thanks.

Here is the entire set of requirements:

The Committee on Admissions at the Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) requests that you submit lettes of evaluation. In order to fulfill this requirement, your letters should be submitted from the following sources:

1. A composite letter from your premedical advisory committee, OR
2. A letter from your premedical or academic advisor, plus three letters from your professors (two of the three should be from faculty members in science disciplines). If you have no advisor, three letters will be acceptable.
3. If you have transferred during your undergraduate career, please request at least one letter from a faculty member at each school you attended. These letters may fulfill part of the requirements stated in number 2 above, or they may be submitted in addition to those requirements. If you feel the faculty members at some schools can no longer supply meaningful evaluations, please send a letter stating so.
4. If you are or were a graduate students, please request a letter from your graduate adisor and any appropriate professors. These letters should be aubmitted in addition to the requirements stated in 1, 2, and 3 above.

If your school has a system for premedical advising and evaluation and you do not submit material through this system, you must explain your reasons for not doing so. Also, if you are unable to submit any one of the required letters, explain your reasons in writing when you return the Evaluation Inventory Form.

Although confidential letters of evaluation are of most use to the Committee on Admissions, it is not required that you waive your right of access to your letters. It is necessary, however, that you inform all appropriate parties of your decision to waive or not waive your right of access to letters of evaluation written on your behalf.

You may submit a maximum of three letters in addition to those required. If you request additional letters, you should make sure that the authors will be able to submit them within the same time frame as the required letters of evaluation, since all letters must be on file before your application to Loyola-Strich is considered complete.

 

[Phoenix.]

Here is the entire set of requirements:

The Committee on Admissions at the Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) requests that you submit lettes of evaluation. In order to fulfill this requirement, your letters should be submitted from the following sources:

1. A composite letter from your premedical advisory committee, OR
2. A letter from your premedical or academic advisor, plus three letters from your professors (two of the three should be from faculty members in science disciplines). If you have no advisor, three letters will be acceptable.
3. If you have transferred during your undergraduate career, please request at least one letter from a faculty member at each school you attended. These letters may fulfill part of the requirements stated in number 2 above, or they may be submitted in addition to those requirements. If you feel the faculty members at some schools can no longer supply meaningful evaluations, please send a letter stating so.
4. If you are or were a graduate students, please request a letter from your graduate adisor and any appropriate professors. These letters should be aubmitted in addition to the requirements stated in 1, 2, and 3 above.

If your school has a system for premedical advising and evaluation and you do not submit material through this system, you must explain your reasons for not doing so. Also, if you are unable to submit any one of the required letters, explain your reasons in writing when you return the Evaluation Inventory Form.

Although confidential letters of evaluation are of most use to the Committee on Admissions, it is not required that you waive your right of access to your letters. It is necessary, however, that you inform all appropriate parties of your decision to waive or not waive your right of access to letters of evaluation written on your behalf.

You may submit a maximum of three letters in addition to those required. If you request additional letters, you should make sure that the authors will be able to submit them within the same time frame as the required letters of evaluation, since all letters must be on file before your application to Loyola-Strich is considered complete.

Thanks! Guess that just means I'll need a grad letter. I'll call Loyola and see if they'll take a letter of good standing like MCW and EVMS. That poor registrar from my grad school....

 

[jbrice1639]

also, if you have a committee letter, the whole thing about transferring becomes irrelevant. i did my undergrad at a big 10 school as well, and then did a post-bac program. i got a committee letter from the post-bac program and no letters from the big 10 school. loyola did not ask me about why i had no letters from the previous school, and i was accepted. so, if you have a committee letter/packet, whatever the committee requires from you will be sufficient.