Getting recommendation letter from an Ivy professor? 4 questions

gibby
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:30:10 +0000

I know why these schools ask for letters of recommendation - which is exactly why I made the thread.

@akova1: Please – if you really knew why colleges ask for letters of recommendation, then you WOULD NOT have created this thread. As lookingforward pointed out, it’s right there on Harvard’s website: They want letters from teachers who have recently had you in their classroom. That’s because they are looking for scholastic potential, which someone you recently encountered, be it a Harvard professor or the President of a corporation or country, cannot give you. T26E4 was being honest and blunt, which you interpreted as rude. In fact, as notejoe pointed out, he was actually being nice, as your question was truly lacking in analytical skills or critical thinking. As you seem to be the only one on this thread defending your question, I would really take a moment to reevaluate what you know and don’t know about the college applications process.