Question about LORs

[diosa428]

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This is kind of a dumb situation, but I can't really get a good answer from anyone at my school and I have to decide what to do so I can finalize my fourth year schedule.

I've looked at programs and it seems that some require 3 LORs and some require 4. My plan is to collect 4 and then decide which to use for the programs that require 3. For the 4 LORs:
1.) I'm doing a year of research and will get a letter from my PI (who is a psychiatrist).
2.) I will probably get a medicine letter from my medicine clerkship (I am not doing a medicine sub-I).
3.) I am thinking of doing a peds sub-I (I want to apply to fast track C&A programs) and could try to get a letter from that.
4.) For my final letter, I can either get it from my psych clerkship (during this clerkship I worked directly with the attending, no residents, was the only student and did very well, he liked me a lot, and I'm pretty sure the letter would be very good) or I can get one from a psych sub-I.

My question is this: would it be better to use the psych sub-I letter because it's a sub-I? Or does it not matter, since most schools don't offer a psych sub-I anyway? Or should I get a letter from both the sub-I and the clerkship and forget about the peds letter?

Thanks for the help.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

This is kind of a dumb situation, but I can't really get a good answer from anyone at my school and I have to decide what to do so I can finalize my fourth year schedule.

I've looked at programs and it seems that some require 3 LORs and some require 4. My plan is to collect 4 and then decide which to use for the programs that require 3. For the 4 LORs:
1.) I'm doing a year of research and will get a letter from my PI (who is a psychiatrist).
2.) I will probably get a medicine letter from my medicine clerkship (I am not doing a medicine sub-I).
3.) I am thinking of doing a peds sub-I (I want to apply to fast track C&A programs) and could try to get a letter from that.
4.) For my final letter, I can either get it from my psych clerkship (during this clerkship I worked directly with the attending, no residents, was the only student and did very well, he liked me a lot, and I'm pretty sure the letter would be very good) or I can get one from a psych sub-I.

My question is this: would it be better to use the psych sub-I letter because it's a sub-I? Or does it not matter, since most schools don't offer a psych sub-I anyway? Or should I get a letter from both the sub-I and the clerkship and forget about the peds letter?

Thanks for the help.

You will really want that psych clerkship letter as one of your top 3.

 

[diosa428]

You will really want that psych clerkship letter as one of your top 3.

Yeah the psych letter will be in the top 3, probably over the peds letter (I just listed it as #4 because it was the one I have the confusion about). Do you think psych clerkship > psych sub-I?