Pre-Med Committee Recommendation

[KaterTots11]

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[146233]

How important is it to have a pre-med committee evaluation/recommendation from your undergraduate school, especially if you've been out of college for 3+ years? The process for my undergrad college is extremely lengthy and detailed and I'm not sure if I'll have enough time before I apply to med schools to complete it. Since I've been out of school for awhile, is that overlooked?

No, it's not overlooked. The bulk of schools prefer a committee composite letter. Most of them, however, allow you to forego the committee letter and send individual LORs instead. A select few, however, require you to write your own letter explaining why you did not use the pre-health committee. In your case, that would be simple, explaining that you graduated three years ago.

-z

 

[boodthedog]

If you can get it I would go through the lengthy and detailed process. I just found a professor from my degree granting institution to augment the advisor letter I received from where I did my post bac. This was at the advice of an admissions recruiter. You might be fine without it at some schools, especially explaining you graduated a few years back, but you'd be much better with it.

 

[KaterTots11]

Thanks guys! 🙂

 

[Noeljan]

Hey there
I think it would be in your best interest to try and get the letter. I have a friend from graduate school who couldn't get one from UG, and got flat out rejected from many schools because of it (when he called they straight up told him, your grad school/advisor letter cannot count as the prehealth letter). Maybe if you have a specific school in mind and they say they don't need it, then go ahead (but in most cases for some reason they want that letter)

 

[drtr]

No, it's not overlooked. The bulk of schools prefer a committee composite letter. Most of them, however, allow you to forego the committee letter and send individual LORs instead. A select few, however, require you to write your own letter explaining why you did not use the pre-health committee. In your case, that would be simple, explaining that you graduated three years ago.

-z

Hey guys: I am struggling to find a way to get a composit pre-med letter/or science letters, and thought of dipping in for some advice. I have been working in financial services for the past three years. Molecular Bio pre-med, Immunology MS (from a PhD program)and went into consulting/finance for financial reasons. Now, I am trying to get back to medicine. Getting an undergrad pre-med composit might be out of reach. Getting a science grad rec might be a possibility. Might be able to get a letter from by B-school prof's mentioning my work with hospitals.

I have over 200 hours of volunteer work - shadowed docs etc. but for a good three years, I was away from the field - how will all these effect my application?

Any thoughts guys?

Thank you very much!