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As part of the application procedure every University will require you to send two or three recommendation letters. These letters are recommendations from teachers/ professors who have taught you at school/ college.
Each university has a different format for the recommendation form. Since each university has a set format for the recommendation form, your recommenders may find it tedious to fill out all the recommendation forms, hence they may give you a recommendation letter on the institution or personal letterhead.
Each university has a different format for the recommendation form. Since each university has a set format for the recommendation form, your recommenders may find it tedious to fill out all the recommendation forms, hence they may give you a recommendation letter on the institution or personal letterhead.
- The recommendation letters must be Confidential. You must ensure that.
- The recommendation letter is typed on the institution/ teacher’s letterhead.
- Each copy of the letter has the recommender’s signature in ORIGINAL.
- The letter is enclosed in an envelope that is sealed (i.e. glued shut).
- The recommender has signed across the flap of the sealed envelope.
For each of your recommenders’, you must have 15 copies of the recommendation letter duly signed and sealed in envelopes as shown below:
Sample Recommendation
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
XYZ has been my student at the University School of ABC, ---------- University for the past three and a half years. During this time period I have got to know her quite well as she shows an intense desire to be a scientist. She possesses outstanding academic capability, higher than most other students that I have taught. She has shown focus and determination and seems to relish academic challenges. She is a sincere and committed individual who has displayed a sense of responsibility that is very commendable.
I taught XYZ courses dealing with concepts in biotechnology, Molecular Biology laboratory techniques in Biotechnology, Molecular Biology laboratory and experiments in recombinant DNA technology lab. Xyz demonstrated a keen interest in class discussions and always completed her assignments on time. She was thorough and skilled in her practical work and showed an excellent command of laboratory techniques. Xyz possesses the zeal to learn and explore and has the potential to perform good laboratory work. She is inquisitive and curious and very interested in pursuing research in the field of molecular and cell biology. She has an in-depth understanding of cellular processes, especially transcription factors and genes and is interested in the underlying mechanisms for gene expression.
Xyz has always worked well on team assignments. She is friendly and cooperative and has the ability to communicate effectively with her peers and teachers. She has always delivered good presentations and reports, making a determined effort to collect additional information through extensive research from various research journals of cell and molecular biology and other Nature journals. Lab staff finds her very pleasant to work with. She has a good command over the English language and puts forward her point of view succinctly and with great clarity.
Xyz has been one of the best students in my class and consistently ranks among the top five. Despite this she has remained humble and focused, and strives to work even harder. I am confident that Xyz will do very well in a graduate research program because she has the perseverance and determination to succeed. Most importantly she is imbued with scientific temper and thirst for knowledge that will take her far in her research career. She will be an asset to any institution that she wishes to join. It gives me great pleasure to recommend her for admission.
Name of recommender
PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATION
As the General Manager --- ---- --- I have noticed the outstanding performance of Xyz who works as Executive Engineering – Design and Development in our firm. Our firm is a joint venture of .........., responsible for bringing in their technology of suspension in trucks and trailers to Indian roads. All components manufactured conform to the proven and demanding standards laid down by …… The employees also are selected after going through rigorous recruitment process that conforms to international standards. So even though I have not had direct interaction with Xyz, I am confident that he has sterling potential, commensurate with our stringent criteria. In the past one year I have noticed that he has put in sincere and diligent efforts to stand out from the crowd. He has shown immense growth from the time he joined us as a trainee. After successful completion of his training period, he was promoted as an Executive in Design and development department.
He was responsible for preparation of BOM and ECN Releases, for Preparing CAD drawings for parts and assemblies with GDT in Solid Works,3-D Modeling, FEA Analysis, Procurement of Standards books for engineering purpose apart from Data entry in Tally for costing/stores purpose.The team based Projects that he was a apart of included designing of suspension system for …. His job was to remodel components according to vehicle specifications and carry out finite element analysis of the components and also of entire assembly for safe design.
He possesses very good technical and analytical skills and therefore completed all the tasks to perfection. He also proved to be a good learner as he would instantly study new concepts and technology and its applications.
I have noticed that Xyz is imbued with good interpersonal skills and maintains good relation with all his colleagues. He is patient and responsible. Whenever he was asked to give presentations or communicate with clients or colleagues , he impressed everyone with his command over language, clarity and courteous mannerisms.
In the team oriented environment he would take it upon herself to coordinate with others or take the lead in problem solving. I feel that this hardworking and committed young professional will definitely fulfill his ambitions and deserves all the support that he seeks.
Name of recommender,
Customization LOR
While we recognize that you are extremely busy, it is most helpful to the candidate if you answer the specific questions that we ask. Please write your answers to the following questions in a separate document and upload them into the online application. Most recommenders find 2-4 pages (double-spaced, using 12-point font) sufficient to relay their impressions and perspectives.
The most useful recommendations provide detailed descriptions, candid anecdotes, and specific evidence that highlight the candidate’s behavior and impact on those around her or him. This kind of information helps us distinguish the very best applicants from a pool of many well-qualified candidates.
REFERENCE QUESTIONS:
The most useful recommendations provide detailed descriptions, candid anecdotes, and specific evidence that highlight the candidate’s behavior and impact on those around her or him. This kind of information helps us distinguish the very best applicants from a pool of many well-qualified candidates.
REFERENCE QUESTIONS:
- Please describe your relationship to the candidate, and describe the circumstances under which you have known her or him.
I am the Associate Professor and Senior Surgeon working in the General Surgery Department at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. I am also the Unit Head, Unit II, the unit in which Abhinav worked as a Junior Resident for three consecutive years from April 2005 to April 2008. Being the Unit Head, I was supervising his work and at the same time got a chance to observe him as a professional and as a person from close quarters. Abhinav attended a lot of national level conferences with me where I got a chance to observe his organizational capabilities, presentation and oratory skills.
- How is the candidate’s impact on your organization different from that of other well-qualified individuals in similar roles?
Abhinav was very focused on his work and would let nothing distract him. He would never let family or personal matters to take precedence over his duties and would hardly ever take any leave. He had good technical knowledge and a good surgical hand. He believes in being meticulous. He also bought laurels to Safdarjung Hospital by bagging the Best speaker prize for his oral presentation “P-Glycoprotein expression predicts response to Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in Breast Cancer” at Natcon 2006, BHU, Varanasi. Subsequently, he also bagged the Fresubin 2007 Best Speaker prize at AIIMS for his Thesis work on “The role of nutritional status in predicting post operative outcome in patients undergoing Emergency Lapratomy”.
- What do you like most about the candidate?
The one thing that I like most about him is that he is very congenial, friendly by nature and a team person to the core. He is respectful to his seniors, friendly with his peers and caring for his juniors. One particular incident that I can recount is when I, Abhinav and a team of eight consisting of his peers, juniors & seniors had gone for an oncology conference to the city of Varanasi. As his sister resided at Varanasi, he did not allow anyone of us to stay in a hotel. We were made to feel at home at his sister’s residence for the three days we stayed in Varanasi. His caring and loving nature extends to the patients and their relatives and transforms into zeal to provide the best of health services.
- Please describe the most constructive piece of feedback you have given the candidate. Please also detail the circumstances that caused you to give the feedback.
The most important feedback that I have given to Abhinav is that regardless of the administrative difficulties that one might encounter, one should be ready to circumvent it and do good. The circumstances in which I had to tell him this were related to management protocols for a case of road traffic accident victim. RTA Victims with a Glasgow Coma Score of less than eight need some form of ventilatory support and in developing countries with limited facilities,a tracheostomy is a wonderful option. To get the Tracheostomy done, initially calls used to be sent to the ENT Department. Invariably the ENT Specialists would take a lot of time to answer such calls as they were always busy with their own workload of patients. This would cause delay and harm to our RTA Victims. I told Abhinav that as a surgeon, he should learn the procedure himself and avoid the delay caused by this unnecessary reliance on the ENT Staff. He took the advice enthusiastically and learnt tracheostomy from me. Subsequently, he did hundreds of it himself, saving a lot of time and causing great improvements in such patient care and recovery time.
- Is there anything else (positive or negative) about the candidate that you would like to tell us?
One positive thing that I would like to highlight about Abhinav is that he is very sharp and perceives the situation very quickly. He has an analytical mind which he can apply to different and diverse situations. I fully endorse his desire to pursue MBA studies.