<p>Has anyone ever had success obtaining a LOR from one of their lower division professors? (bio1a/1al/1b,chem1a,3a,3b,phys8a,8b,etc)? You don't have to disclose the professor's name or class, but I'm just curious to see how common/uncommon it is here at cal.</p>
<p>I am presuming graduate school LORs would be more or less the same as medical school LORs.</p>
<p>For graduate school, I tried got LORs from my honors thesis professor, a professor who does research related to what I am going to do in graduate school (whose classes I took and whose lab I was employed by), and a professor who taught an UD course I loved and aced.</p>
<p>LD professors are generally distant figures who never really know their students that well. I would not use a LD prof if I were you</p>
<p>I also do not suggest using a lower division teacher. Unless you got to know them well (near impossible, as office hours were always packed), they will not generally write very letters. </p>
<p>I got all 3 of my letters from UD courses-one MCB, one lab course, and a non-science course. Generally UD is easier to get to know professors, and they are all very accessible during office hours as nobody goes.</p>
<p>Bummerrrr. Stupid 300-400+ student classes.</p>
<p>Try it if you got an A+. Even an A might not be impressive from professor’s point-of-view.</p>
<p>I hate going to UD office hours sometimes. Kids asking stupid questions without going through the material by themselves makes me want to go into full ****** mode.</p>