推荐信和自己往届学生比较是否合适

如题，大概就像下面这种：
I have been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua for over 20 years, and had quite a few talented students. My student SSS, for example, is now a new faculty member at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. XXX clearly shares with her common qualities of diligence, strong motivation and exceptional talent.
大家觉得这种合适嘛

你要是有这种力度肯定最好啊，但是你确定你老师会这么写么……能在cmu找到faculty的都是phd中的精英中的精英了，你要是比他还强，那你不得毕业就去mit faculty了……

这个思路感觉有些绕，把注意力转到了被比较的人身上而非自己身上。一般比较常见的套路是教授说“XXX在我近几年的带过的学生中有哪些特质是数一数二的”、“XXX在同届学生中展现出了哪些出众的品质”，并且一定要有一个比较具体的事例来佐证，只说一些形容词还是不够有说服力。比如 “XXX demonstrated great creativity in his/her thinking. Compared to other students I interacted with, he/she was always able to come up with questions or novel ideas that inspired our work”，这个可以和往届学生比也可以和同级学生比。

lihaobhsfer 发表于 2019-9-19 08:20
这个思路感觉有些绕，把注意力转到了被比较的人身上而非自己身上。一般比较常见的套路是教授说“XXX在我近 ...

主要是之前看到一个Brown的教授说最好给一个context方便招生官评价，比如之前的学生去哪了，混得怎么样
他原文是这样的
-baidu 1point3acresHey folks—Eva Echidna is more dedicated than Jonas Jackaroo and every bit as smart as Walter Wallaby, both of whom are past students of mine who appear to be thriving in your program.

有道理！！！