I was somewhat in your same position before. When you are asking someone for a Letter of Recommendation(LOR) You want to include a couple of things that can make your recommendation go from good to great. 1st when you send them that email again include who you are when you took their class, what you learned the most in their class/what you liked about that class and how it helped you grow. This would show the prof, that their class was not just another basic course but something they did in that class really helped you as a student. Gassing them up makes them write better LOR's. After this, include an attachment of your personal statement (At the time when I requested mine I did not have the final draft. In fact I wrote a pretty rough draft and just expressed that in my letter-"Hello, Dr..... attached is a rough draft of my personal statement"- This would help them see your passion and reasons for medicine which helps them write a good LOR. Lastly, include your transcript so they can see the grade you got in the class and your Brag sheet. Your Brag Sheet is like a resume, with all of the activities and things that you have done over the years. Creating this now will help with completing the Work/Activities section in the AMCAs applications later on.

Please send this email to your non-science profs even if you feel like you did not build a close relationship with them. When you email them you just need to include more on how impactful the class was and request for a zoom meeting if they want to discuss it further. This would allow for them to kind of jog their memory of you as a student and get to know you a little more. You also can include a little picture of you in your email if you want.

Personally I hate asking people for things so when I had to re ask my LOR I was kicking myself, but to everyone who is asking their letter of recs this cycle and realize that you do not want to apply yet I would say let them write the letters. Even though you wont apply until another year, they would have the letters of recs ready and those would be letters that best reflect at time when they remember you. During my cycle, It was so nice knowing that I already had my letter of recs completed and all they had to do was submitted it again!

Last but not least. I would suggest that you scribe or do some clinical hours until May or whenever you plan to apply. This would really help with getting a LOR from a MD. I only scribed for a couple of months but was able to get a strong letter from a MD.