URGENT! Please Give Advice (Letters of Rec)

[IAmBlessed]

Long time lurker here. Hello everyone! I believe this community is great because of the passion many students express regarding medicine.

Enough with the pleasantries. I am a an applicant for this current cycle with OK statistics (GPA:3.8, MCAT:31). I need help regarding my letters of recommendation, particularly my committee,composite letter. During my interviews, a lot of interviewers were asking me questions that I KNOW for a fact were not in my AMCAS application. In fact, I've never even done them before! Some questions were asked about myself shadowing in a specific hospital, when I have never done so or claimed in my amcas application. There were inconsistencies in my application that I strongly suspected came from my committee letter (How do I know this? Well, it just kept happening so often I know it to be the culprit). They asked how did retaking the mcat go, BUT I ONLY TOOK IT ONCE! Who knows what happened, maybe my pre-health advisor got me mixed up with another student?

My question to you is this. I have nothing to hide from academic transcript or any violations in the Honor Code. I am applying again next cycle (keeping my fingers crossed), so I have to ask: If I elect not to send my committee letter, will this raise red flags to my application? I'm not even sure how to explain this! I know for a fact they will ask me in secondaries or interview why I didn't have a committee letter when my school offers one!

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[deleted480308]

go to your school and ask them to review your committee letter specifically for the errors that you suspect...

 

[jamcat]

Agreed. Go to the committee, tell them exactly what you've told us, and ask them to review the letter to make sure there wasn't a mix-up.

I've heard on here that if you have a committee and you don't have a letter from them, it raises eyebrows regardless of the lack of honor violations, etc.

Good luck!

 

[IAmBlessed]

I don't believe there was complete mixup. I just had one inconsistency. I did write however that "I wanted to shadow at this particular hospital," signifying that they implied its what I pursued for my gap year.