Recommendations

[thegenius]

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I will be applying to Medical School in 2005 (for 2006 matriculation, that is so far away!) and I will be an older candidate, at application time I'll be almost 31.

I starting to think about who is going to write me recommendations for medical school. I began thinking about recommendation requirements - for instance some schools want 2 sci recommendations and 1 non-science, some want a different spectrum of recommendations.

I don't have a science recommendations from my undergraduate years - and I went to school from 1992- 1996. Do medical schools have provisions for candidates like me? How strict are their requirements for recommendations?

 

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[thegenius]

That makes sense - what I am afraid of is having some recommendation of me that came from a professor in 1995 which doesn't speak to my current abilities. I do have a set of recommendations from professors (and I've read them) and they really don't apply to me right now.

I would prefer to give them recommendations from the hospital that I'm going to work at in the next month, and also give them recommendations from important people whom I've worked with over the past 2-3 years. They know me much better than some professor I took a class with 8 years ago.

However these people (like CEO's and VP's at technology companies) aren't that close to the medical profession.

Recommendations from those in the medical profession are key. What about outside the medical profession? Can anyone talk about the success they've had?