What to include in CV to give to LOR writer?

[BobBarker]

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What do I need to include in the CV to give to a LOR writer? I have only club memberships, a decent GPA, and a pretty good USMLE score for medical school. No scholarships, honors, publications, etc. For undergrad, I have lots of scholarships (enough for an academic "full ride"). Do I list those? What about carpentry, farm work, and substitute teaching which pretty much sums up my work experience.. List those?

 

[Law2Doc]

What do I need to include in the CV to give to a LOR writer? I have only club memberships, a decent GPA, and a pretty good USMLE score for medical school. No scholarships, honors, publications, etc. For undergrad, I have lots of scholarships (enough for an academic "full ride"). Do I list those? What about carpentry, farm work, and substitute teaching which pretty much sums up my work experience.. List those?

Your CV is basically the kind of thing you would use as a resume if applying for a job. So it should reflect this kind of stuff. Academic background, employment background, organizational work, honors, publications. Don't try to pad it by adding stuff that doesn't really belong (eg you wouldn't list undergrad scholarships, unless it was an award/honor for something you've done). You may want to leave out menial jobs unless you did them pretty substantially and they account for gaps of time you weren't in school.

 

[lankysudanese]

What do I need to include in the CV to give to a LOR writer? I have only club memberships, a decent GPA, and a pretty good USMLE score for medical school. No scholarships, honors, publications, etc. For undergrad, I have lots of scholarships (enough for an academic "full ride"). Do I list those? What about carpentry, farm work, and substitute teaching which pretty much sums up my work experience.. List those?

I would list almost all of the things that you mentioned (including USMLE score), so as to give the LOR writer an idea of how well-rounded you are. From what I understand from our PD, a good LOR comments on your clinical attributes, while painting a picture of what kind of person you are outside of the wards (so the substitute teaching, farming or carpentry are perfect for that). This gives the notion that the LOR writer knows you very well, and thus his/her comments are taken a little more seriously.

Or at least that's what i heard.

Good Luck

 

[hippiedoc13]

As someone mentioned in another thread around here somewhere, if the farm work, carpentry, and substitute teaching accounts for a significant period that would otherwise be a time gap, then it should definitely be included on your CV. The conventional wisdom that I have always heard is that you should pretty much be able to account for all your time since HS graduation (ie when most people start college). If there are big gaps of time on your CV that are unaccounted for, people will likely wonder what was going on.