Getting recommendation letter from an Ivy professor? 4 questions

gibby
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:42:03 +0000

@akova1: Every day, thousands of students from China, Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, Russia, Mexico, South America and Australia tour Harvard. There are so many tourists on campus, they sometimes get in the way of the student’s attending the school. Think for a moment: if just half of the tourists tried to get a professor – who didn’t personally know them as a person or as a scholar – to write them a letter of recommendation. What could the professor possibly write that would sway Admissions? “I met akova1 today, he seems like a bright kid.” Imagine the chaos that would create going to and from class for the professors, not to mention how it would devalue an actual recommendation from a Harvard professor in the admissions process. Your post shows complete desperation and your behavior indicates that you lack the critical thinking skills that Harvard seeks. FWIW, as a newbie poster to College Confidential, you should avoid criticizing a veteran poster like @T26E4, who has over 18,000 posts and is an alumni interviewer for one of Harvard’s peer schools. When you post on the Harvard forum, people assume that you are “Harvard material.” Please start acting like you have what it takes!