<p>This quote from a well know mathematician is about me/my papers. I am not sure what MIT admissions/particularly American admissions will think of this.</p>
<p>The answer to this my be clear to you but not to me because of culture difference.
In my culture, “we” is more important than “I”. So, I am having a hard time saying nice things about my self!</p>
<p>Can you tell me what the quote is? I’m very interested.</p>
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<p>You did not answer my question though. I am non traditional student. So, I am asking if using such kind of quote is traditional?</p>
<p>The quote is:
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<p>You may not agree that this is nice but I did not even expected him to send back!</p>
<p>Or this one from different papers
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<p>But we don’t need to reinvent the wheel :(</p>
<p>Have him write you a letter of rec. hell mention it in there forsure</p>
<p>I don’t recommend you to do that. Putting in quotes will take away your word count which you can say something original. Putting in quotes create a feeling that you have nothing better to say. Unless you can integrate the quote into your essay rather than just ‘As XYZ have said, ‘blah blah blah’’, like:</p>
<p>For every move I make in a game of chess, there will be a road not taken, and therefore blah blah blah</p>
<p>is good. You did not deliberately quote the ‘road not taken’.</p>
<p>That’s what I did.</p>
<p>Edit: I’m so sorry for not reading the posts. I just read the title. I apologize. Well, it’s good that you have a response from him, but don’t put it in the essay. Ask him to write recommendation letter instead. Much more powerful.</p>
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<p>First of all, he is not my mentor. He is very famous and busy man and I never asked him to write a recommendation letter. I am so happy he sent back and I have to respect that. Also, I never met him in person. He just knows my papers not me!
My professors are the ones who know me well and should write my recommendation letter?</p>
<p>Ask him to write a short note to your college counselor, and ask your college counselor to incorporate the mathematician’s quote into his/her recommendation.</p>
<p>I was in a similar situation, and that’s what I did.</p>
<p>You could still ask him to submit a recommendation even if you don’t know the guy personally. An extra rec doesn’t hurt if it adds something to the application, and this certainly would.</p>
<p>I agree with collegealum – academics are used to writing letters of recommendation, and he won’t see the request as odd even if he doesn’t know you personally. He’ll just comment on the aspects of you that he feels qualified to comment on.</p>
<p>Thank you very much at @collegealum314 and Mollie,
I will think about that.</p>
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<p>I thought the counselor stuff was for high school students?</p>
<p>aren’t you a high school student?</p>
<p>No, undergrad. I am transfer student.</p>