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Questions on recommendation or reference letters received from faculty members when applying for graduate schools or faculty positions.

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Recommendation letter for a good student that you don't know?

As ff524 said, if the professor has only the grade to go on, there is little to write an recommendation letter about. The only situation I an think of where this would be very relevant is: if the co …
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Can a former employer provide a useful recommendation for graduate admission to a science pr...

The important thing to keep in mind is that the goal isn't this specific letter, but composing the best possible application for, in this case, Stanford. So the primary question is: would a letter fro …
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Quitting PhD program after 1 year

The problems seems to me to have started here: Nevertheless, I applied since I believe the value of a phd is up to yourself, not the popularity of the supervisor. I think we can both agree that …
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