What to do?

[draven72981]

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Okay,

I applied last yr and I am currently waitlisted, so I don't really know what is going on for next yr yet.

I never got any new LOR b/c I didn't know if I would need them (and I was probably hoping I wouldn't)

I AM taking a class right now (for EMT cert) and I could proably get a mediocre LOR from the teacher (who is not a prof - he is an emt and nurse -- I already have one from a nurse where I volunteered)

Also, I am about 300 mi from my school now, so tracking down profs would be quite a pain in the butt.

What do you guys think I should do?

 

[king kong]

IMHO forget about getting a recommendation from your EMT instructor. It won't have much weight with an admissions committee. For that matter, a LOR from a nurse where you volunteered once won't either. Can you get a physician there to write a letter instead?

Get in contact with your professors! Use the phone! You need them. An application w/o LORs from your instructors would be suspect. (Would no one there vouch for you?) Most secondaries explicitly require that LORs come from certain profs.

More importantly, if you are waitlisted still, concentrate on getting off the list. Write letters to everybody - the dean, your interviewers, any admissions staff. CALL them. You were good enough to be waitlisted so they think you would be successful there. Now is the time to show them your motivation and desire to attend their school. When a spot becomes available, they are going to give it to the one who wanted it the most, not the one who they never heard from again after they were interviewed.

Good luck.
k.k.