<p>I'm planning to be a premed student and major in some sort of science next year. </p>
<p>I was wondering what are the premed advisors like at UNC @ Chapel hill? Are they helpful? Do they bring in speakers? What do they make available to students?</p>
<p>I also am aware that UNC-CH doesn't have an advising committee that will write a combined recommendation letter. Will this hurt my chances of getting into a med school? Do med schools favor the combined letter from an advising committee?</p>
<p>Probably get more responses on SDN. Not many premeds here… But you can find most of that out first hand w a little Googling and some phone calls…</p>
<p>PM me. I’m a premed at UNC.</p>
<p>Not having an advising committee letter only hurts you if you go to a school that writes them and you couldn’t get one because they didn’t want to recommend you. Frankly, I think their a pain in the butt and was glad that I didn’t have to go through that nonsense.</p>
<p>Depending on how the committee is run, it can be an advantage. For example, for Cornell’s committee, all you need is 2 LOR’s from any source. Then you are granted an interview so the committee can get to know you better and afterwards a committee letter is written that supposed to “make you walk on water” (in the words of my committee interviewer). The committee letter is not generic but is positive (by highlighting the strengths of each individual applicant). Because my LOR’s were the weakest part of my app, it was a relief to not have to get so many LOR’s (especially instructor LOR’s) to fulfill individual med school LOR requirements. The committee letter lets you bypass any individual med school LOR requirements. This is all moot for someone who has a plethora of professors from which he can get his LOR’s but it’s helpful for someone like me.</p>
<p>bump char10</p>
<p>Did we not answer something?</p>
<p>D f t t …</p>