PRE-HEALTH EVALUATIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS:
Why Do I Need All These Evaluations?
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All health professions schools require letters of recommendation either from a health professions committee or from individual faculty. Hunter has a Premed Committee composed of faculty who write these letters on your behalf. However, in order to give you a strong recommendation we need input from your science and non-science instructors. We must be able to tell schools about your ability to assimilate new material easily, your willingness to ask pertinent questions, your level of preparation for class and exams, as well as your interactions with faculty and your peers.  Without this essential information your letter is incomplete, lacking in solid facts to support our evaluation of you as a credible candidate for professional school. Therefore, it is imperative that you work hard to obtain the evaluations from faculty, TA’s and recitation instructors. Likewise, it is YOUR responsibility to remind them, pester, them, cajole them into submitting these evaluations on your behalf. Lastly, only YOU can ensure that your evaluations have relative comments useful in assessing your academic prowess. How? By visiting faculty during their office hours, sitting in the front of the class, asking and answering questions in class and, in general, giving them an opportunity to remember you out of the many other students in the class!