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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 the appropriate places:

Medical: AMCAS (for US MD schools) accepts evaluations. In order for us to send your evaluation(s) to AMCAS you need to provide us with the matching Letter Request form. You should be able to 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 Credential Request form.

Dental: AADSAS accepts evaluations. 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. AADSAS will send us an e-mail with instructions on how to upload your letter. 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 Credential Request form.

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

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


THE PERSONAL ESSAY
WRT 302.01

The personal essay is a form that has recently come back into fashion. In this class we will engage the form by writing our own personal essays as well as reading and responding to the work of writers who have come to define the genre: examples include  E. B. White, Langston Hughes, and Raymond Carver as well as more contemporary writers such as Joan Didion and Gene Shepherd. We will explore the differences between shaping experience as truth in a personal essay or memoir and as a work of fiction. As a definition of personal essay evolves, we will consider whether personal writing and essay writing (or “essaying”) have a place in academic writing.  Students in this class will also be able to prepare a personal essay for their application for graduate or professional school.

Session 1
Class # 67346 WRT 302.01
TUTH 1:30-4:55
Professor Richard Buch

Session 2
Class # 67349 WRT 302.01
MW 9:30-12:55
Professor Tom Tousey