Timeline for How does the statement of purpose of students help professors to write letters of recommendation for graduate school application in U.S.?
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| Jun 24 at 20:24 | comment | added | BioBrains | What TripeHound said: For all sorts of purposes the student's statement can jumpstart my brain/memory. I often ask them what they think I should remember about them. Some are spot on or come up with a specific example, others are too boastful and I use both pieces of information to then draft my letter about what I do remember and how I evaluate the student. | |
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| Sep 20, 2017 at 0:44 | answer | added | Andy Putman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 22:23 | history | edited | No One | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2017 at 22:22 | comment | added | No One | @D.W. Thank you! I should be clearer. I meant if such a strength is unknown to professor before (s)he is reading SoP, (s)he is not supposed to put it in LOR, right? | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 11:10 | comment | added | TripeHound | Another aspect may unequal familiarity: a student might "know" only one or two professors; to a professor, a student could be "one from a group of 60+" and many might be no better known than "someone who comes to my lectures". Having statement of purpose might help the professor identify a particular student from the masses ("Oh yes, Ti Wen was the student who showed an interest in xxx subject"). | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 6:58 | comment | added | D.W. | Why do you think that professors "are not supposed to use the strengths mentioned(or boasted of) in the students' statement of purpose" in their letters? | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 4:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/910002689702064128 | ||
| Sep 19, 2017 at 3:12 | answer | added | paw88789 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 3:01 | answer | added | Scott Seidman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 0:03 | comment | added | neuranna | Another possible reason that hasn't been mentioned yet is the fact that the application should provide as much information about the student as possible. Therefore, if a student talks about a certain experience in their SOP, the professor might not want to repeat the description - (s)he can instead focus on a different event or highlight another perspective regarding that experience | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 22:40 | answer | added | Brian Borchers | timeline score: 22 | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 22:30 | answer | added | Bryan Krause♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | Jon Custer | I'm not a professor, and don't write LORs for undergraduates. I do manage a research group and write LORs for post-docs applying to faculty positions, so perhaps I can give a wider perspective. The point is to help the person you are writing a letter for put together a comprehensive application that specifically addresses a job posting. Knowing about other parts of the application can definitely help with tailoring a LOR for that given posting. Perhaps (well, likely) more true of things like faculty positions, true (hence just a comment). | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 22:23 | answer | added | Tom Church | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 21:53 | history | edited | No One | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2017 at 21:46 | history | asked | No One | CC BY-SA 3.0 |