my school also did not have a committee. i had a packet of info that i sent to all my recommenders. this included my personal/vision statements from the AMCAS app as well my science/non-science GPAs from college and post-grad. i talked a lot about my ECs and clinical experiences in my personal statements, so my recommenders had a good idea of my clinical stuff as well as scholastic performance. a side note which might work well for some of you: at the last minute, one of my letter writers bailed out on me, so i had to find someone else. i did not have much confidence that this particular professor would really say anything personal about me, even though i had done well in her course. but i needed to ask her because i needed another letter from a science faculty. so anyway, since it was such short notice, i wrote a letter myself (about myself) and told her i was including it as a "sample of how i would like the letter to look" in order to save her time in writing it. really i just wanted her to use my letter because i made myself sound pretty good. she emailed me and told me she had just decided to use my letter since she agreed with everything in it. so i ended up with a really sweet letter of rec from a professor who didn't even know me that well...all because i wrote the letter myself and sucked it up enough to basically invite my professor to use it. that is what i learned from this whole application process: you've just gotta suck it up. so what if you haven't even spoken to that professor in three years or you don't even know if they will remember you. do you want to get in to med school? then you just do what you've gotta do. my advice: ASK EARLY because professors take sabattical during the summer and also go on vacation and stuff and sometimes are difficult to reach. i learned that the hard way. good luck!
