No LoRs from professors?

[MurphyCats]

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If you don't have any LoRs from professors, is it possible at all to get into a med school? And I'm not exactly a non-traditional student, I graduated from college last summer.

 

[MedicalDoge]

Ergh that's most likely a problem. I applied to thirty schools and I think every one of them required faculty letters.

 

[JustintheDoctor]

Depends on the school, most schools are fine with a committee letter instead of other single LORs from multiple professors

 

[MedicalDoge]

^^^true, my school didn't have a committee, so professors were necessary. If you have a committee, that's fine

 

[CyrilFiggis]

An LOR is supposed to highlight your ability to achieve in the classroom. That's why schools mandate faculty letters.

 

[Goro]

You graduated from college last summer and you think its impossible to contact your former professors and ask for a LOR? Maybe you didnt know them that well, but they can still write a letter

I am worried that in this situation OP will get, at best, weak LORs.

 

[Goro]

Sounds more likely the OP would get general generics. In any event a weak required letter is better than no lettet

Is it?

 

[MurphyCats]

Of course it is
No required letter = no consideration no chance
Weak/generic letter = consideration some chance

Yup.. so no letter = no chance