Recommendation Letter trouble

TrueAce
Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:05:53 +0000

Thanks for the advice.

However as I looked into it I think the Civil War instructor was actually just a lecturer and not even an assistant professor. Would no doubt write a decent recommendation but not that topical to stats; if that matters or not.

The grad student stats instructor — yeah not sure. I did create a 30 page independent experiment stats project for that course (the course was about statistical methodology in psychology).

Yes, a grad student of course is not going to have the credibility or value to a panel of professors, but what are my options? Plenty of people have their supervisors/ work bosses write recommendations, and usually they aren’t professors of course.

Other options I see are a bio psych full professor from senior year who probably won’t know me too well or a cognitive psyc professor from senior year - huge lecture hall of students - but I DID complete a project that she placed in the “top ten” for the class (of like 300) — so there’s that. Thing is outside of that project (which was mostly psychology and no statistics) — not sure how much she’ll be able to comment on me, unless she just makes stuff up or rights some generic statements.

Yeah well my LORs might not be the strongest. Right now I’m thinking either the stats project grad instructor or possible the full professor in cognitive psychology who I suppose enjoyed at least one of my projects.

ANDS!, all the MS in applied stats programs I’m applying to require LORs, most require 3.

Illinois Urbana Champaign 3, Purdue 3, Iowa 3, Michigan State 3, Loyola 3, Northern Illinois University requires 2.