{"id":784,"date":"2022-12-29T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/?page_id=784"},"modified":"2022-12-29T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:51:16","slug":"recommendation-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/recommendation-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendation Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This page is based on advice from Jason Eisner:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~jason\/advice\/how-to-ask-for-a-recommendation.html\">https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~jason\/advice\/how-to-ask-for-a-recommendation.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am often asked to write letters of recommendation for students. It&#8217;s my pleasure to assist students interested in continuing their studies or finding new opportunities. This page describes how I provide letters for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s in the letter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The content of my letter depends on how I know you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Research students.<\/strong> I&#8217;ll say as much as I can about the research we did together, describing the technical scope of our project and your specific contributions to it. I will also describe what it is like working with you- your qualities as a researcher. I read and write many letters for graduate programs, so I am very familiar with the content and expectation of these letters. If you worked closely with a graduate student in my group, I&#8217;ll solicit feedback from that student. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Students in Course<\/strong>. If you took my class, most likely I don&#8217;t know you or your work very well. I will provide a standard letter that describes my class to provide context for the reviewer, and the grade you received in my class. These letters do not go into detail beyond that. That&#8217;s pretty typical for these types of letters, and reviewers will understand that it is a &#8220;this student did well in my class&#8221; letter. To be clear, this type of letter isn&#8217;t enough to get you into graduate school. However, my assumption is you have someone else who knows you well that will write a strong letter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to send me<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As a matter of policy, I will only send a letter if it is confidential. Be sure to waive your right to read the letter. This assures the recipient that my recommendation will be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please give me a month&#8217;s notice if possible, so that I can find a block of time to fit this in. It would be useful for you to send me the following materials as soon as convenient. You will need to send me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>List of schools for which you need a letter.<\/strong> A Google sheet works best, with the name of the school and the deadline. Practically, I will submit all the letters at once, but it&#8217;s helpful to know the earliest due date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Your statement of purpose and CV.<\/strong> This provides me with context that can be helpful in framing my letter. Practically, I don&#8217;t need this for the &#8220;Students in course&#8221; letter, but it doesn&#8217;t hurt to share it with me if you have it ready.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck with your applications!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is based on advice from Jason Eisner:https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~jason\/advice\/how-to-ask-for-a-recommendation.html I am often asked to write letters of recommendation for students. It&#8217;s my pleasure to assist students interested in continuing their studies or finding new opportunities. This page describes how I provide letters for students. What&#8217;s in the letter The content of my letter depends on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/784\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~mdredze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}