<p>****es me off as I don’t have the two instructor letters it wants and it’s too late to add an additional LOR because:</p>
<p>1) UCSF wants me LOR’s within 4 weeks.</p>
<p>2) UCSF wants my LOR’s to be sent from the premed committee and my premed committee refuses to attach any more LOR’s to my packet. </p>
<p>Just like that my dream at my #1 choice is gone. <em>sniff sniff</em></p>
<p>Hey Norcalguy, Cornell premed committee asks for three LORs. Who did you ask for your LORs?
Did you call UCSF admissions committee and explain your sitaution? Maybe they will make an exception for you and let the additional LOR to come directly from the instructor.</p>
<p>awww i’m sorry norcalguy. i’m sure you’ll get in everywhere else.</p>
<p>I remember the UC’s didn’t accept electronic letter submission, but they’ve stopped accepting committee letters entirely?</p>
<p>I wonder if this was in fact the case two years ago and Duke just told them to deal with it and I never knew…</p>
<p>PS: You didn’t want to go to UCSF anyway.</p>
<p>I had 1 instructor and 2 professors I did research with. Not the best combo obviously but I was expecting the committee letter to carry me through. I’ve turned in 17 secondaries already and this is the only one that has asked for stuff on top of the committee letter.</p>
<p>UCSF says that if your school has a committee, you must use their letter service. This is standard. What is not is the fact that you must input the names of two instructors whether you choose the committee option or not.</p>
<p>I did want to go to UCSF. I am a die-hard Giants fan and oh yea family, friends, blah blah blah are all in the Bay Area.</p>
<p>1.) You don’t want to be a Giants fan. I mean, it’ll be fun for the next two days (or two weeks at this rate), but seriously. There’s two superstars in the Bay Area: Baron Davis and Billy Beane. (And Frank Gore?)</p>
<p>2.) Haha – well, if you’d like to hear an entire long rant about how – seriously – you shouldn’t want to go to UCSF, I can fill you in on my long, drawn-out courtship with them.</p>
<p>1) I don’t want to be a Giants fan (esp. this year) but I am. haha I really got into baseball in 1997 (the year the Giants and Dodgers went down to the wire) and have been a fan since.</p>
<p>2) Go ahead. I’m all ears.</p>
<p>2.) Will do via PM tonight.</p>
<p>PM sent 9 PM CST.</p>
<p>Ncg: 756, ~9 Pm Pst.</p>
<p>Can somebody explain to us not in the process yet the problem? I thought most med schools required LOR’s straight from the people you worked with.</p>
<p>I went to sleep haha Not a huge fan of Bonds and I think the focus on the HR chase detracts from his position as possibly the greatest all-around player of all time. Will read the PM sometime during work ;)</p>
<p>afruff23: Typically, med schools want LORs from people who’ve taught you in a class (ie instructors). 2 science and 1 non-science instructors would be the optimal combo and should be able to satisfy the requirement for any med school. If your school has a premed committee, med schools will take the committee letter in lieu of any individual professor letters…except for UCSF, hence the problem for me.</p>
<p>1.) Medical school requirements vary considerably in terms of letters of recommendation – so much so that a friend of mine who attended UC Berkeley (which has no commitee) had to assemble nine different LOR’s to apply to the various schools he was applying to. And since those requirements (often) aren’t clear until the secondary phase of the application, he has no idea which letters to request until they’re actually due, holding up his application. Some schools wanted two professors in his major; one school wanted one professor in any department from which he received a degree (i.e. majors, minors, etc.) Some schools wanted English, some schools wanted three sciences, some schools wanted a biology, a chemistry, and a major, etc. (One note: he was applying MSTP.)</p>
<p>2.) However, the one common theme is that if you have a committee, their requirements trump whatever the medical school is asking for. My committee wanted three professors, at least two of whom were in a science, and a research mentor.</p>
<p>3.) Apparently UCSF is more stubborn than… well, every other school in the country. Evidently, they insist on having their own requirements followed no matter what.</p>
<p>4.) Well, it’s at least a big moment in baseball history. Plus, it means Bonds is finally trade-able if y’all decide to move on.</p>
<p>5.) Is it possible to just give UCSF your packet as it stands and hope they don’t care?</p>
<p>That’s the plan. UCSF screens fairly rigorously for secondaries (1500 out of 6000 applicants last year received secondaries with a third of them receiving interviews) and it’s only $60 for the secondary fee. I still have to fill out two names for instructors although I guess I can pretend like I confused “instructor” with “professor” ;)</p>
<p>“What are you talking about? I received lots of instruction during my lab work!”</p>