一个美国老师给我写的推荐信：一方面给大家参考；另一方面希望大家能提出改善的意见

Warald 发表于 2011-12-27 07:44
如果只是上课老师，这封信足够好了。

可以了。

这封信能有用么？？？没有介绍一点靠谱的东西可以么？

按照三楼给的网站，这推荐信的效力为0；
给的理由有简单：上课成绩已经从成绩单中反映了，这样的推荐信就属于多余信息了··

会不会有点太简洁了。。

moli128 发表于 2012-9-29 04:17
按照三楼给的网站，这推荐信的效力为0；
. 给的理由有简单：上课成绩已经从成绩单中反映了，这样的推荐信就属 ...

这封信明显信息量比成绩单还是要大一些的吧

一剑终情 发表于 2012-10-1 00:31
这封信明显信息量比成绩单还是要大一些的吧

“I highly recommend student X for your graduate program. Student X received an
A+ in my undergraduate algorithms class. He was ranked Number 2 out of 100 students. He
got the highest score on the final. He worked very hard all semester, never missed a class,
and was always able to answer the questions that I asked in class. This conscientious attitude
makes him an excellent candidate for any graduate program


Which letter do you think is stronger? It turns out that Letter 2 is very strong. Letter 1 actually
counts as 0. At CMU we mark all letters like letter 1 with the acronym D.W.I.C.. This stands for
“Did Well In Class” which counts for 0, since we already know from the student’s transcript that
he did well in class.

moli128 发表于 2012-9-30 17:05
“I highly recommend student X for your graduate program. Student X received an
A+ in my undergr ...

你给的这封信跟楼主给的信是一样的嘛。

两者都给出了最终成绩，排名，具体每次（或某次）考试的排名，修课过程中的状况（出勤，回答问题等）

成绩单呢？给出了最终成绩

怎么会一样呢？

一剑终情 发表于 2012-10-1 13:48
你给的这封信跟楼主给的信是一样的嘛。

两者都给出了最终成绩，排名，具体每次（或某次）考试的排名， ...

关键是后面的评语~~
版主，求加分·~

moli128 发表于 2012-10-1 07:05
“I highly recommend student X for your graduate program. Student X received an
A+ in my undergr ...

letter 2: “I highly recommend student Y for your graduate program. Student Y received a B in
my undergraduate algorithms class. He was ranked Number 29 out of 100 students. Halfway
through the semester we started working on network flows. Student Y seemed extremely
excited by this topic. He disappeared for 4 weeks and even missed an exam. However when he
came back, he showed me some work he had been doing on a new network flow algorithm for
high-degree graphs. He had done some simulations and had some proofs. I’ve been working
with student Y for the past couple months since then and he is full of ideas for new algorithms.
I think student Y’s initiative makes him an excellent candidate for any graduate program.

recommends:
Which letter do you think is stronger? It turns out that Letter 2 is very strong. Letter 1 actually
counts as 0. At CMU we mark all letters like letter 1 with the acronym D.W.I.C.. This stands for
“Did Well In Class” which counts for 0, since we already know from the student’s transcript that
he did well in class. By contrast, student Y’s letter gives us a lot of information. It explains that
the reason student Y didn’t do better in class was that he was busy doing research. It also tells
us that student Y started doing research on his own initiative, and that he is quite good at doing
research. The professor was impressed enough with student Y’s ideas that he took him on as a
student researcher despite student Y not having high grades.
You want your letters to all be of type 2 (this doesn’t mean that you should skip class!). Remember that letters of type 1 will not count. You want words like self-motivated, strong research
potential , own initiative, independent, and driven to appear in your letters. These are the words that
we circle when reading recommendation letters. You therefore want to ask letters from people who
have seen you do research. These may be professors or employers.

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