Science letter concern

[kiwifriend]

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Hello, everyone! I would love some guidance!

So looking through other threads on here, I'm thinking I might have gotten some bad advice from my school's pre-health department?

Here's my list of recommendation letters (all already submitted to my school):
1.) Chem professor
2.) Advanced psych course professor (from my major)
3.) PI for current research coordinator position
4.) MD that oversees the department I work in

I will also have a committee letter from my undergrad.

My adviser said that I didn't need a second science letter because my PI wrote me one. However, I don't know that this really counts because I'm not conducting independent research. Is this an issue? I've seen other threads discussing this but it seems like those students were all working on their own research projects.

I really don't know any other science professors that could write me a letter. I took a lot of my pre-recs in summer courses/giant night school classes, and the most recent class was over a year ago. I did well in all my classes, but with my schedule, I pretty much never made it to office hours.

Would schools not consider me because I don't have another science letter or will my PI's letter be okay?

Thanks!

 

[mistafab]

Hey OP - look at the schools you are applying to, their website should specify the minimum (and sometimes maximum) requirements for LORs.

FYI, most schools I looked at when I applied said faculty letter OR committee letter. You may just drop the faculty letters, and use the committee letter + MD + PI.

Just my two cents. Check the schools you want to go to and look at their website. You can always specify which letters you send to what schools in AMCAS anyway, so more never hurts I guess.

 

[Rainbow Zebra]

Hello, everyone! I would love some guidance!

So looking through other threads on here, I'm thinking I might have gotten some bad advice from my school's pre-health department?

Here's my list of recommendation letters (all already submitted to my school):
1.) Chem professor
2.) Advanced psych course professor (from my major)
3.) PI for current research coordinator position
4.) MD that oversees the department I work in

I will also have a committee letter from my undergrad.

My adviser said that I didn't need a second science letter because my PI wrote me one. However, I don't know that this really counts because I'm not conducting independent research. Is this an issue? I've seen other threads discussing this but it seems like those students were all working on their own research projects.

I really don't know any other science professors that could write me a letter. I took a lot of my pre-recs in summer courses/giant night school classes, and the most recent class was over a year ago. I did well in all my classes, but with my schedule, I pretty much never made it to office hours.

Would schools not consider me because I don't have another science letter or will my PI's letter be okay?

Thanks!

If you have a committee letter, you don't need anything else for most med schools. Your committee will determine if you have enough LOR breadth, not the med schools.