NOVA-COM LORs

[mastamark]

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Hello all,
I was searching on Nova's website and noticed they required a Committee letter of recommendation, or 2 from science profs in addition to 1 from a liberal arts prof if a committee doesn't exist at your institution. I have a pre health committee at my school but they wont even evaluate me for a letter because I chose not to major in biology against their recommendation. Since my school has a committee will this hurt me? 😕

 

[iwilldlvr]

You will be fine. A lot of us don't use the committee for varying reasons. Just send the individual LORs. The school doesn't care.

 

[DOEYEGUY]

Do not worry. As an alumnus, I can tell you that I majored in Philosophy and took the bare minimum premed requirements (you will see how ridiculously useless they are anyway) with the exception of biochemistry. If you do well in your premed classes and do well on the MCAT, you should have no problem.
I do not necessarily reccomend majoring in Philosophy... Til this day, now as an intern, I have not taken a class in med school or learned anything remotely as conceptually difficult as my 400 and 500 level Philosophy courses in college. You should be proud you're not majoring in Bio though. And if you call and explain your situation to the admissions people at Nova, I'm sure they will work something out. I know there are fair minded people that work there. LOR's are not remotely the most weighted part of your application anyway.