A Great "Why" Applicant vs. The Overqualified Applicant

tdy123
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 05:58:42 +0000

As an aside, “showing how he/she operates in the classroom, always asking questions and curious about others have to say.” Is pretty much a run of the mill LOR for “a top college like an Ivy or that level.”

A “great” LOR says things like:

“most outstanding student in my 30 year career”

“performing at college level since I first had the pleasure of having her in my class in 9th grade”

"when the accrediting team sat in on a class she was student teaching, they didn’t realize she was a HS student and said to the department chair: “great teacher, but she looks rather young, has she finished her ED MA yet?”

The hypothetical 3rd applicant @Eeyore123 wrote about.