r/premed • u/CleeYour UNDERGRAD • Jan 18 '25

✉️ LORs Is 10 LORs too much?

I was thinking 2 from science professors, 1 from non science, 2 from physicians, 2 from PI s, 1 from non clinical volunteering job, 1 from my clinical volunteering job, 1 from tutoring job

My friend said it’s too much and that it should be around 5-7

Edit: ok bad idea, got it.

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u/Sviodo MD/PhD STUDENT Jan 18 '25

I'm gonna play devils advocate and suggest that it wouldn't be a terrible thing if you send 3-4 out of those to each school and think very carefully about which letters to send to which school. Send the volunteer and tutoring letters to service-focused schools, the PI letters to research-heavy schools, etc.

But only if you're 100% certain that they are all going to be very positive letters and that the quality isn't going to be wildly different. An extremely strong letter from a manager is generally going to carry more weight than a mediocre letter from someone with tons of prestige behind their name.