On Graduate School/Job Letters of Recommendation

[Chedva]

<p>[Johns</a> Hopkins Magazine](<a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0208web/essay.html]Johns”>Johns Hopkins Magazine)</p>

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As I write, one academic season gives way to the next. We’re leaving the season of writing letters of recommendation and entering the one of reading them. The former lasts most of the year. The latter is brief but intense. Both activities are time-consuming, necessary, and may not make a whole lot of difference. At least I hope they don’t because the process is flawed, a chain with no strong links.

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[anxiousmom]

<p>Great article. Poor profs (and high school teachers). I would NOT want to have to churn out rec letters like they do!</p>