Committee Letter Process
The Board of Pre-Health Advisors is composed of members of the faculty and administrators. The Board assists current students and alumni who are ready to apply to medical or other health professions schools in two important ways.
- Advisors work with students individually as they develop the various aspects of their applications, and help students assess the strengths and weaknesses of their candidacies.
- The Board provides a letter of recommendation for students applying to medical or other health professions schools. Medical (MD and DO), dental, podiatric medical, and optometry schools either require or very highly recommend such a letter of recommendation for applicants.
Steps
To receive a letter from the Board, applicants are required to take the following steps.
- Attend an Applicant Information Session. Sessions are held throughout the fall semester on various days of the week.
- Submit an Intake Form and Meet with a Pre-Health Advisor. In this meeting, you'll discuss your candidacy, and the Pre-Health Advising team will get to know you better as you start the Board and committee letter process.
- Complete the Pre-Health Dossier in Slate. This is our internal application system. The application consists of materials that you will need to prepare to apply to programs, including a personal statement, activities list, transcripts, and short answer essays.
- Interview With a Member of the Board. The interview allows the Board to become familiar with each student applying to medical or other health professions schools. They are held during the spring semester of each year.
- Request Individual Letters of Recommendation. We require a minimum of four and maximum of five individual letters of recommendation. Two letters must come from faculty who know you from courses, advising, or other settings; at least one of these other faculty letters must be from a science professor (though two is preferable). Your remaining letters can come from faculty and/or others who are directly familiar with your work and activities beyond the classroom or laboratory. Your letter writers will upload these directly to the Slate application on your behalf.
The Committee Letter of Recommendation from the Board of Pre-Health Advisors
The committee letter includes a holistic letter written by the Board as well as all of your individual letters of recommendation. These are then submitted as a complete packet to the centralized application on your behalf.
Brandeis Board of Pre-Health Advisors
This list will be posted by the end of Fall Term 2024.