Getting recommendation letter from an Ivy professor? 4 questions

notjoe
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:58:48 +0000

@akova1,

I don’t think that T26E4 was “judg[ing] with no core knowledge of who I am,…”

He wasn’t judging you or anything innate about you at all. Here’s the key to what he told you:

"…probably not a good exhibition of the analytical skills…"

He was judging how well you’re demonstrating whatever skills and abilities you have. And he was being nice. What you asked is CERTAINLY not a good exhibition of any analytical skills. Maybe you have those skills and inherent capacity. Maybe you don’t. But your post clearly didn’t exhibit them.

Re-read your own question. Think it through. Ask, “Why do admissions committees ask for letters of recommendation?”

If you can’t connect the dots, you’re not yet ready for the big leagues.

Your saving grace is that you’re still young; you have a little longer to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

But if you can’t see the point folks are trying to make, you’re still a good ways off.