Grad Schoolhouse Recommendations

Here is a invitee post from NYU economist David Backus.

I should likely kicking the bucket over this, but I exactly went through something similar the next xx times:  

* Click on link inwards email.
* If you lot failed to log out the previous time, you lot demand to unopen your browser in addition to root again.
* Login.
* Set novel pw:  type one-time pw, novel pw twice.
* Check to concur to price in addition to conditions.
* Enter contact information, including e-mail address which, of course, they know, because they sent you lot an email.
* Complete drop-down carte du jour of questions.
* Upload letter.
* Enter elevate in addition to appointment — which, of course, they know.
* Submit.  
* Are you lot sure?  

Don’t kicking the bucket me wrong, I’m happy to write letters for my students.  But is this the best nosotros tin do?  

As faculty, we’re non oft asked nearly the software arrangement used yesteryear our admissions offices, they’re imposed on us yesteryear our staff.  But David Romer has a nifty reckon for fighting back.  His letters include the following:   

I accept a theater policy of never providing numerical ratings or filling inwards boxes on letters of recommendation for graduate study.  When possible, I exactly piece of occupation out the boxes blank. If on-line forms create non allow questions to live on skipped, I banking firm represent “Not Applicable” (or equivalent, such equally “Insufficient Information to Judge”) inwards all cases.  If I am forced to render ratings, I render the highest possible ane inwards all cases.  These are blanket policies; hence my answers render no data nearly the candidate.  

Why don’t nosotros all create the same?  It won’t alter anything, but we’ll accept a niggling fun equally nosotros click through the radio buttons. 

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