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Summer internship vs LOR

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HeronsBeak

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This is a tad premature, as I don't know what my professor is going to do yet, BUT...one of my professors who I thought would be willing to write me a LOR won't leaving me with a prof that I have only talked to on occasion. I don't care if he writes me a letter saying I got an A in his class and that's it, at least it fulfills the sci LOR requirement. I have two other good letters, one sci, one non, and a pending good letter from a DO, so hopefully those could compensate. My dilemma is this, if he refuses, even after copious begging, I will only have 1 sci LOR, narrowing the school list I have to only a few. I have been accepted into a cool sounding public health internship, but if I don't get a letter, I think I have to withdraw from it to take a science class this summer and get to know the professor really well to get the LOR. If you were in that situation, what would you do?
 
Hooray! My engineering professor from two years ago agreed to write me a letter. Hopefully that'll count.