Three eLORs from vets...is this a mistake?

[sheltervet]

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All three of my eLORs are being written by veterinarians...after reading other threads on SDN, I am wondering if this was a bad decision. Should I have asked for a letter from someone outside of the veterinary field?

Two of the vets writing letters work at the place where I have been a vet tech for almost two years. The other vet is a professor at the vet school I am applying to; I took an upper level graduate course with him & also did an independent study project with him as well. All three vets writing me letters attended the vet school that I am applying to (which probably doesn't make a huge difference, but at least they'll be able to say whether they think I am a suitable candidate for the school).

I'm an older candidate (late 20s), and I really didn't feel like going all the way back to my undergrad professors for a letter. I have completed a master's degree, but I have seen one of the letters that my graduate advisor wrote for me in support of a job application, and although the letter said good things, I felt it was not very personal...it focused more on my intellectual capabilities and less on my personality & the "soft skills" that vet schools are trying to learn more about you in the letter. Do you think that the admission committee might wonder why I didn't have my graduate advisor write a letter?

This isn't a big issue...I think I am just beginning to freak out b/c the deadline is less than 3 weeks away!!!

 

[pressmom]

I think you should be okay because some schools want two letters from vets and others want one from a vet, one from a prof, and one from an employer. You should have all those bases covered with those letters. Good luck!

 

[sofficat]

when i applied i had 3 vets write me letters. retrospectively i think i should have had a prof. in there. also, when i wasn't accepted to UF they told me that b/c 2 of the letters were from vets from the same workplace they were pretty much identical letters. oh well.... got me into vet school at AUBURN!!

 

[sheltervet]

Is it really bad to have two letters be from vets who work at the same place? I work really closely with both of them, and they are incredibly different people who I know will write very different letters. Yes, they'll mention similar experiences, but I don't think that what they have to say about me personally will be too similar.

I guess we'll see...this first time applying is really just a learning process, right?🙂

 

[cla1203]

Hi, I had all three of my letters from vets I worked with at the time (two different clinics) and even though I didn't get in, I did have a conference with someone at LSU to discuss what went wrong. He said that I scored all the possible points possible for my recommendations, so it really didn't matter in my case that they all were vets. However, that was at LSU and other schools may be different. Hope that helps!

 

[pressmom]

I had three vet letter all from the same clinic and got into Ohio State, Auburn and UTK. It can happen!