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Sending your letters for 2010 applicants

If you are applying to a graduate level health profession for 2010, here are a few important points about having your letters of recommendation mailed to application services and schools in a timely fashion.

For all applicants:

  • If you did not provide us with your applicant ID number(s) (for the application services you are using) in your autobiographical packet, make sure to do so as soon as possible. You can e-mail this information to prehealth@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.
    For reapplicants, sometimes your applicant number might be different from one year to the next. Make sure we have your current information!
  • Evaluation versus recommendation: Don’t be confused. The terms are, roughly, interchangeable. Typically, evaluation refers to a letter that is the product of a prehealth committee. Stony Brook’s prehealth committee selects letters of recommendation which will be sent along with your committee evaluation.
  • Remember that if you are getting a Committee Evaluation (through submitting an autobiographical packet, having an interview, etc.) that the Committee selects which three letters (or in rare cases more than three) will be sent along with the Committee Evaluation. If a school or application service asks you which letters you are getting, you should just put down in your paperwork that you are getting a committee evaluation and that the committee is selecting the accompanying letters.
  • We are allowed to send your letters only to applications services for graduate schools of the health professions and to individual schools of the health professions. If you want your letters to be sent to Scholarship programs or to other graduate programs and professions, you will need to get permission from the people who wrote your recommendation letters.

Medical: AMCAS (for US MD schools) accepts evaluations (recommendation letters). In order for us to send your letters to AMCAS you need to provide us with the matching Letter Request form. You should print this from your AMCAS account, after completing the Letters of Evaluation portion of your application. Please note, not all US allopathic schools are participating in this service. Visit http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/faq/amcasletters.htm to see the list. For all schools not participating in that service, this includes the small number of US allopathic schools, US osteopathic schools, and foreign medical schools, you will need to submit a Credentials Request form.

Dental: AADSAS accepts evaluations (recommendation letters). In order for us to send your evaluation to AADSAS, you need to complete the Evaluators portion of your AADSAS application. You can either select electronic or paper. If you select electronic, please use prehealth@notes.cc.sunysb.edu for the e-mail address. If you select paper, you should provide us with a printed Paper Request, available in your AADSAS account. Upon your request, you can also have your evaluations mailed directly to the dental schools; to request this, please complete a Credentials Request form.

For all committee evaluations: If you need contact information for a primary contact/author please use the following

Mr. James Montren
Faculty Committee on Health Professions
Academic & Pre-Professional Advising Center
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3353
Email: prehealth@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Phone: 631-632-7082

Walk-In Advising

The Academic & Pre-Professional Advising Center will be holding walk-in hours beginning Tuesday, November 10. Please stop by with questions regarding registration or applications.

Tuesday, November 10

2pm-4pm

Wednesday, November 11  

10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm

Thursday, November 12

10am-12pm & 2pm-4pm

Friday, November 13 

10am-12pm & 2pm-4pm

Monday, November 16   

10am-12pm & 2pm-4pm

Tuesday, November 17    

10am-12pm & 2pm-4pm

Wednesday, November 18   

10am-12pm

Thursday, November 19

10am-12pm & 2pm-4pm

Friday, November 20  

10am-12pm & 2pm-4pm

Monday, November 23   

10am-12pm

Tuesday, November 24   

2pm-4pm

SBU Global Medical Brigades Information Session
Monday, December 7
Union 236, 8:30pm

Do you want the chance to provide much-needed medical relief to hundreds of Hondurans living in rural, impoverished villages?

Join a 7 day student-run Medical Brigade to Honduras! We will be sending a group of dedicated volunteers, along with doctors, pharmacists, and medical students to Honduras at the end of the Spring 2010 semester. We will be setting up temporary clinics to provide as much free medical aid as possible to small villages in Honduras.

This is a unique opportunity for anyone who is interested in medicine, public health, international development, or just experiencing Central America first hand. We especially need Spanish-speaking students on the brigade; however, everyone (even with no Spanish or medical experience) is encouraged to join us.

We will be gathering donations, medical supplies, and medicine throughout the fall and spring semesters to bring with us to Honduras. All members of the brigade will be paying their own travel, room, and board expenses. However, we will fundraise together to minimize expenses!

If you cannot make the session, but would like more information, please contact SBUBrigades@globalbrigades.org

Also feel free to visit the official Global Medical Brigades website at http://www.medicalbrigades.com