Application Closed December 14, 2007.

• Please include your name, phone number, and e-mail address within the package/envelope you have submitted to Berkeley Optometry in case we need to follow up with you.
• You may begin submitting your Transcripts and Letters of Recommendation on August 10, 2007.

TRANSCRIPTS

• All official transcripts must remain unopened and sealed.
• Please do not submit high school transcripts.

LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION

Berkeley Optometry requires that you submit three Letters of Recommendation. In addition to the three letters written on your behalf, all recommenders must complete the Berkeley Optometry Letter of Recommendation Form.

Please Note: The LOR cover form will not be available until August 10, 2008. Please check back at that time when the document will be available to download in pdf format.

The three required Letters of Recommendation are critical to your application. Suggested sources would include:

• a professor with whom you have done personal work (such as assisted on a specific project or served as a TA or reader), or with whom you took a prerequisite course.
• an optometrist who can state through documented experience that you know what the profession of optometry entails. To gain valuable insight into whether optometry is the right career path for you, experience with an optometrist is highly appropriate in your preparation for optometry school.
• an employer or extracurricular activity advisor who can comment about your maturity, diligence, and conscientiousness.

TIP: Do not send Letters of Recommendation from coworkers, someone you have supervised, relatives, or personal and family friends. These are inappropriate and can be detrimental to the review of your application.

• All recommendation forms (Letter of Recommendation Form), and the corresponding letter(s), must be sealed in an envelope with the recommender's signature across the seal. While we would prefer to have the LOR Form and corresponding letter in the same envelope, we will accept them independently, as long as both are in envelopes with the recommender's signature across the seal.
• If you are submitting letters of recommendation through a letter writing service at your college or university, we understand that you may not be permitted to mail the dossier of letters on your own behalf. However, the three recommenders you have selected and identified on your Berkeley Optometry application must also complete the Letter of Recommendation Form.
• Some Pre-Health Advising offices compile academic/ personal information and will also coordinate the collection of letters of recommendation in order to provide a "Committee Letter" for pre-optometry students. Please note that Berkeley Optometry does not accept Committee Letters (one comprehensive letter) and/or letters written by a committee in lieu of three letters of recommendation that have been individually written.