<p>If you choose not to use your colleges pre-med advising committee to coordinate your recommendations, etc do medical school hold it against you?</p>
<p>I do not know if they hold against you, but I also would not know why you would not choose such a wonderful free service which saves you so much time and do everything in such a timely professional and painless manner.</p>
<p>Maybe the op is afraid that the he/she won’t get a committee letter.</p>
<p>If your school does a committee letter, you essentially need a committee letter. Not having one is going to look bad.</p>
<p>I mean, I don’t think it’s even possible. Medical schools just won’t accept it.</p>
<p>The experience that my D. had with her committee was very positive and exceeded her expectations in all aspects of application process. They have all insentives to get their pre-med graduates into Med. Sshool. If there is any problem, talk to them openly, they should be very helpful.</p>
<p>You essentially HAVE to go throuhg your committee. Especially if you’re a current student or recent graduate. Medical schools look very unfavorable upon people who don’t go through their college’s committee and it will raise red flags during the application process. If you have nothing to hide then there’s no reason you shouldn’t use your committee. They’re supposedly created to help make the application process a little simpler.</p>
<p>if your schools have a committee and the med schools know this, it wont look good at all if you dont go through it</p>
<p>Why don’t you want to use your committee?</p>
<p>Is there a possibility that the committee may want to limit the number of applicants to raise the probability of success for the school?</p>
<p>it depends on the school, but yes some committees do screen out applicants. my school doesnt screen, but ranks us based on how qualified we are. such as highly recommend, recommend, neutral etc</p>
<p>just dont use it, its that easy…</p>
<p>I don’t know what #12 thinks he’s doing, but it’s very detrimental to your application and in many cases will simply get it thrown out entirely. Do not do this.</p>
<p>Perhaps it would help if you could get to know your committee members better before they would be interviewing you. Is there any way you can figure out who they are? My school uses the director of the honors college as the head of the committee. I simply sent him an email with my resume and personal statement attached and asked if he would meet with me to discuss med school. I’d already met him once during freshman/sophomore year, so that may have helped, but he was really willing to help out! Since I already knew him, the interview was a piece of cake (and quite enjoyable!)</p>
<p>I’d focus on figuring out why you’re so anti-committee, then work to change that, provided you still have time (which I bet you do, because you probably wouldn’t be asking this if you were going to apply this cycle). For what it’s worth, Mike’s advice is always solid and based on numbers and experience–I’d take his on faith over just about any other random internet poster any day.</p>