Biochemistry Graduate School

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Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:06:14 +0000

scaleupchem, your premise that “there are ways to quantify anything” is only a half-truth. You can, indeed, quantify anything - but whether that quantification is at all useful or accurate is an entirely different matter.

For starters, you cannot assume that all LORs are equal. That’s simply not true.

Secondly, you are omitting perhaps the single most important part of graduate admissions: “fit” with the program. That’s likely intentional on your part, because that is a section which is entirely qualitative - and cannot easily, if at all, be reduced to a set of numbers and calculations.