Timeline for Is it necessary to customize letters of recommendation with recipient names?
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| Apr 26, 2018 at 13:05 | history | edited | Stella Biderman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2018 at 18:38 | comment | added | Stella Biderman | @LekhaSharma You should include that in the Original Post, not hidden as a comment on another answer. | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 18:37 | comment | added | LekhaS | I am working in the interdisciplinary field of materials chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental remediation, physical and theoretical chemistry. | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | Stella Biderman | @NateEldredge I rewrote my comment to be clearer and not make unstated assumptions about the OP’s context. | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 18:34 | history | edited | Stella Biderman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2018 at 18:31 | comment | added | Stella Biderman | @LekhaSharma It probably highly depends on your field. As Nate mentioned, this is super typical in mathematics and people would 100% except an unaddressed generic letter. If you share your field, someone with direct experience in that field might be able to give more useful advice. | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 18:29 | comment | added | LekhaS | @Stella Yes, I am also concerned about the content of the LOR as well. I wonder how people manage to apply at different places with different LORs..Is it really possible? I wanted to know if actually people give generic LOR as mentioned in another comment | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 14:33 | comment | added | Stella Biderman | @NateEldredge I was kinda assuming that that style wasn’t the case, since the OP expects the letters to be addressed to specific people. In my experience I’ve seen either the mass-mailing approach of mathematics or the highly personalized approach, similar to what you might do when applying to grad school. It’s possible that there’s some middle ground, where names are expected but institutionally-relevant context isn’t, but I don’t know of it. | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 14:24 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | In some contexts, it is understood that the writer will write one generic letter that will be sent everywhere. For instance, in math in the US, they'd write one letter and upload it to MathJobs. In such cases it would not be unreasonable for it to end up being used for applying 100 different places. (Oh, your profile says "mathematician" so probably you already know this...) | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 13:00 | history | edited | Stella Biderman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2018 at 12:54 | history | answered | Stella Biderman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |