<p>Hi i have a quick question. I am currently taking a biostatistics course and i would like to get a letter of recomendation from the professor as he also teaches the same course at harvard medical school. For registration purposes the course is a BI (biology) course but the professor is also an econ and stats professor he teaches biostats becasue it is very similar in material to business and econ stats. If i were to get a LOR from him does it count as a science LOR or a nonscience LOR, being every other class he teaches is no registered as a bio class?</p>
<p>hmmm, good question...but i think its ultimately ur call.
If i were you i would have this as an extra recomendation to complement a science and non science but again its ur call.</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>The answer to your question is, "It might vary." Let me try to explain.</p>
<p>Letters of recommendation MIGHT be mandated by your undergraduate institution. In that case, their decision is all that matters, and all medical schools will receive the same letters. If this is the case at your undergrad institution, then the decision is up to your premed office. This assumes that your premed office actually has regulations regarding how many of your LORs have to be science in the first place (most of them do).</p>
<p>However, if your school does NOT provide this service, then you are responsible for giving each and every medical school whatever it asks for, and this varies considerably from school to school. In that case, you will have to check with each and every school you are planning on applying to.</p>
<p>PS: This is one of the times I'm going to disagree with Shraf. I don't think this is your call - on the contrary, I think this is very much somebody else's call. I'm not 100% sure, but I would always advocate checking first.</p>
<p>alright thanx for the advice im goin to ask my advising counsel. just a pretty important LOR being he does teach at Harvard Med i figured his opinion might carry some weight.</p>
<p>I suppose it's worth pointing out that it's more important to have an LOR that describes you well than an LOR from somebody who's supposed to be "important". On the other hand, if you can get both, knock yourself out.</p>
<p>well its hard to say the class has about 60-70 students in it so it is rather difficult to get to know every student but i would have to say that of all the professors i have had he tries the hardest. thats not saying that he may know me more than some other teacher, but for a class that size noone comes close. he also offered to give me a letter of recommendation without me mentioning it, so i would assume thats a plus.</p>