URGENT!!! About getting a new recommendation letter

[CHOIBOY]

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Hey everyone,

This is my second time reapplying, and I had a question about recommendation letters.
I am aware of the fact that it would be BEST if I get LORs that can describe my recent activities, by ppl who KNOW ME WELL. But the fact is, I have been in involved in a lot of stuff during the past year, not exactly medical-related (teaching, DJing, volunteering, etc.), that I cannot say that anyone really knows me as well as the ppl who wrote my existing LORs (which were all written two years ago).

Another problem is I already maxed out on my LORs that my school's committee will send, so thus I will have to replace one of the existing letters if I were to add a new one.

So my question boils down to: should I get a non-medical-related letter that shows my recent activities? or should I just go with the two year old letters by people who really knew me well and try to explain my recent activities through my application and essays....

HELP ME OUT GUYS!!! This question has been killing me for the past several weeks.. :-(

 

[Avoidthetiger]

First off, you really should get @ minimum new letter describing what you have been doing this past year. I would probably get your supervisor for where ever you have been working/teaching to do that.

Secondly, how many letters will your school committee send out? You still ideally still have a letter from your advisor, a science faculty member and one non-science letter. I would try to have all your 2-year old letters updated -- at minimum have the writer just update the date to 2011 from 2009. If possible, if these people can talk about what you did your senior year and actually update the letter, that would be best [if you continued to interact with them after they initially wrote the letter].

So right here you should have ideally 4-5 letters. if your school says that is too much, they are just being difficult.