Hi everyone! I am super new to SDN and don't really know if I am posting this correctly. I need some serious help/advice. I am an engineering major and applying for the current cycle. Because I am not in a traditionally "science" major, I do not have many science faculty connections. I am really unsure who I should reach out to about LOR.
So far I have asked a mechanics professor (this will be a non science letter) and my volunteer coordinator at the hospital I volunteered at. These both will be used for a committee letter. I go to a very large school so when I took my only actual hard science type classes there were 400 students in the course and not a lot of connections could be made with faculty (they often didn't even have office hours).
Possibilities:
I think my biothermodynamics professor from this previous semester could write me one. Does this count as a science letter or no because it was an engineering course? For reference, it covered all the relevant MCAT thermo with some more applications. I took Ochem 2 online this summer and often went to office hours virtually with my professor, but she never saw my face (zoom settings). Because this was recent and I expressed a lot of enthusiasm in the course, could I possibly ask her? I also took a small 20 person honors biology course my sophomore year. I haven't kept in touch with this professor, but she did know me personally at the time I took her course. I did well and worked hard to make up material due to a sickness early on that semester.
I guess I am worried about professors simply not remembering me because it is such a huge school. My major is biomedical engineering and I am worried that my courses do not fall into the category of science in the eyes of med schools. Please please please let me know what you think. Thank you to anyone who took the the time to read this!
So far I have asked a mechanics professor (this will be a non science letter) and my volunteer coordinator at the hospital I volunteered at. These both will be used for a committee letter. I go to a very large school so when I took my only actual hard science type classes there were 400 students in the course and not a lot of connections could be made with faculty (they often didn't even have office hours).
Possibilities:
I think my biothermodynamics professor from this previous semester could write me one. Does this count as a science letter or no because it was an engineering course? For reference, it covered all the relevant MCAT thermo with some more applications. I took Ochem 2 online this summer and often went to office hours virtually with my professor, but she never saw my face (zoom settings). Because this was recent and I expressed a lot of enthusiasm in the course, could I possibly ask her? I also took a small 20 person honors biology course my sophomore year. I haven't kept in touch with this professor, but she did know me personally at the time I took her course. I did well and worked hard to make up material due to a sickness early on that semester.
I guess I am worried about professors simply not remembering me because it is such a huge school. My major is biomedical engineering and I am worried that my courses do not fall into the category of science in the eyes of med schools. Please please please let me know what you think. Thank you to anyone who took the the time to read this!
