Recommendation Letter from Student I Impacted?

polarscribe
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:29:12 +0000

dowzerw:

The point of a recommendation is to help to make you human, to allow the admissions committee to really know you.

Afraid I’m going to have to disagree with this. That might be the case for undergraduate letters of recommendation, but graduate LoRs are a different story. It’s not about “being human,” it’s about stacking your credentials against other strong candidates.

For graduate admissions, you want a credentialed recommender strongly endorsing your academic proficiency, research aptitude and professional skills - because those are the things that graduate admissions committees care about the most.