Recommendation Letter trouble

TrueAce
Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:22:21 +0000

Eh… well maybe I’m not a prepared as mathematically as I thought - I mean I know I’m CAPABLE of the math — I just hope they will let me prepare myself the summer before and hopefully not judge me too harshly on it for my application, though they probably will.

Well, what can you do? I do have a few ‘safer’ schools that I think I have good shots on anyway, Purdue and Illinois are basically the biggest reaches I’m going for. I’d be ecstatic if either one let me in by some miracle. Hopefully they are hurting for money and want to admit more masters students lol… :-D.

Anyway to introduce a bit of drama into this thread, my poli sci prof finally contacted me — now mind you, I haven’t spoken to this person in 2 years.

Anyway, the other two professors love me and were super friendly and nice.

However, although I had a good relationship with this professor, never said an offensive word to her, I now have cause to believe that the REASON she left this prestigious university - that I think she worked at for 10 years — and inexplicably began working at some unknown place (I assumed she went there because of different research interests or her husband, now I’m not so sure) ---- is that there must have been some sort of falling out or massive drama there where either she was ousted or had to leave or SOMETHING.

Because she sent the following curt reply:

Well, I’m not going to type the whole thing because it’s dripping with some sort of contempt for some reason (again, I sent her a total of two emails over a period of 30 days) — but she mentions “I universally do not write rec letters for [prestigious university] students.”

Then she says if you are looking for a rec letter contact [bob robertson] at [prestigious university’s] political science department.

What the frack? Who is that dude? Why would he write me a rec letter? Is the dude in the department that fracked her over or something?

Quite bizarre — well, looks like I’m going to the psyc stats grad student or the Civil War professor … oh boy lol. Well, what can you do. I’m not going to be the CC hyper-uber applicant I suppose.

But ***? This professor says she universally doesn’t right letters for [prestigious U] students? What the frack does that mean?

By the way, she actually WROTE ME ONE BEFORE. Before I graduated (and while she was still working there) in spring 2010.

Something must have soured there, considerably, for this kind of — unprovoked contempt? I don’t know. I wasn’t her favorite student ever, obviously, but I always showed up to class and everything. Just wow. I will be showing this hilarious email with friends.