Pre-Health - Office of Pre-Professional Advising

You will receive instructions and/or evaluation forms from each school.
Most schools require 3-5 letters (except veterinary schools, see the VMCAS section below).
Many schools ask for 2-3 science professors and 1-2 non-science professors, though this varies from school to school. Letters do not all have to be from professors, though you should have most from professors. If you are concerned about what letters to get, contact the individual schools to which you plan to apply.
Get to know your professors. It will help.
Give each evaluator a profile or resume of yourself when requesting an evaluation. Include your goals, honors and scholarships, experiences, campus activities and organizations, hobbies and interests.
Think of people other than professors who might write you a good letter. Have you worked closely with a professor on a research project, or with a health professional that you have shadowed? What about someone who supervised you closely with a special project on which you worked? Or maybe a volunteer or a job supervisor?

Letters of evaluation should be:

From someone who knows you well
From someone who can speak well of your intelligence, personality, and motivation toward your chosen career
From someone you have worked with in an academic/professional capacity

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