Wellness Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 At my school, when a student applies to a professional school, we are in charge of assembling a committee that can write a joint LOR in our favor. As part of my committee, I have the head of my department, the dean of students, my academic adviser, my research adviser, and a professor who taught my organic and biochemistry series. On top of my committee letter of rec., I will be receiving a letter of rec. from a previous employer and a family medicine PA that I shadowed for 40 hours. Have I covered all bases, and will these LORs be sufficient? I am taking a jump and applying this cycle without getting a sufficient number of HCE hours (I have 2 hours lol), so I want every other bit of my application to be perfect. This is a jump, and I know that the chances of getting in are slim. You can't blame me for trying! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLW2018 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 If they're strong letters of recommendation, they should be okay.. But the one where you only worked with them for 40hrs won't be weighed as highly as the others and they won't care about the previous employer unless it was in medicine. I would wait until you've had more hours to apply. Having the experience gives you exposure that makes it easier to learn in didactic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissPA Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 It depends on the programs you apply. Some programs specifically ask you to submit certain number of LORs and/or from specific person (for example, PA that you shadow, your current employer's supervisor, your science professor, etc). So I would double check with the programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgiel16 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 On the CASPA website it says that a PA whom you have shadowed are no longer allowed as a recommendation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teacher2PAC Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 On the CASPA website it says that a PA whom you have shadowed are no longer allowed as a recommendation. Could you point out where it says this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teacher2PAC Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 On the CASPA website it says that a PA whom you have shadowed are no longer allowed as a recommendation. Just want to update, I called CASPA and this above information is incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wellness Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 Just want to update, I called CASPA and this above information is incorrect. Thank you for the update. I didn't think that was logical. Thank you all for the advice. I know some of the programs I looked at specify whom they want their LORs from, which is super helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegro Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 On the CASPA website it says that a PA whom you have shadowed are no longer allowed as a recommendation. Curious where you saw that as I'm not seeing that anywhere (and we have confirmation above it is untrue). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyNichiavelli Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 I think that's good, unless any of your schools require a letter from specifically a professor. My undergrad also has an assembly committee for pre-health students, so I have an assembly committee letter (that includes the pre-health adviser, two bio professors, and a psychology professor that I was a TA for), a genetics professor from a post-bacc class, and a PA that I shadowed. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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