<p>I could get a letter of recommendation from a doctor, would this be useful?</p>
<p>What does this doctor have to say about you?</p>
<p>If you have interned or done research with him/her, then it could be an asset (as long as the school says they don't mind getting supplemental materials).</p>
<p>If it's just your family doctor, though...</p>
<p>Haha, I read your title as "Lord of the Rings."
Have you been sick a lot?</p>
<p>It is a cardiologist that I had no previous affiliation with, when he heard I was looking to shadow a doctor he let me go into surgery with him. He is going to set me up with a cardiologist at UCLA med center to do some research(hopefully). He and I have a personal relationship now. The ER doctor is my nonblood aunt's brother. I flew from socal to portand to do that and we have a great relationship.</p>
<p>I thought Lord of the Rings too...</p>
<p>that could probably make a good rec.</p>
<p>lol i thought Lord of the Rings too... I'd say go for it, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain from that rec</p>
<p>actually, it made me think about Lord of the Rings enough that I've started wondering... where you get the T in LOTR for Letter of Recommendation?
lol, did you mean Lord of the Rings after all?</p>
<p>hahah yeah I thought the same thing too....LOTR = Letter of THE recommendaiton? why not just LOR? or TLOR?</p>
<p>Probably a typo. T and R are right next to each other on the keyboard.</p>
<p>If he knows you well, then sure, go for it.</p>
<p>oh ya sorry guys I was trying to do this fast since I was procrastinating on homework, I just wasn't thinking. thanks for the replies guys</p>
<p>hold on..OP your log in is "uchopeful" does that mean you are going to be applying to UCs? If so there are no letters of rec...</p>
<p>could also be chicago...</p>
<p>My eyes bulged when I saw LOTR... there's so little Ringer-love on these forums! ;)</p>
<p>it is unlikely that a doctor with whom you have not worked in research or who has any firsthand knowledge of your academic skills will be able to say anything that an admissions committee will find useful or convincing. A lot of kids think "gee, this guy's a doctor, they're going to be impressed when he says something good about me." </p>
<p>Not the case. An adcom strolling around campus can't throw a stone without hitting a PhD, often one with a national reputation. The point is the status you give to a doctor is not going to turn any heads on a college campus. And the fact that someone wastes a rec on this instead of someone who can comment based on first-hand knowledge of your classroom or research aptitude says that either they are immature or that there is no person out there who would write a meaningful rec.</p>