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If you've had good class participation and you can provide your resume in condensed, bullet-point form, you should be able to get decent or good (but not great)
by mattmight 15y ago
If you've had good class participation and you can provide your resume in condensed, bullet-point form, you should be able to get decent or good (but not great) recommendations.
- bronxbomber92 15y agoThanks for the quick response! I've got one more if you don't mind. This is a question that should definitely be asked on a school by school basis, but I'd be curious to know if it is a common occurrence as well (from your experience as a professor). I have a fair more amount of experience as a software engineer in industry than as a student; is it common for prospective students to ask schools the permission to substitute a letter of recommendation from a professor for a letter from a manager or boss?
- mattmight 15y agoIt depends on what you're applying for. For undergrad transfers or a terminal masters applicant, industry recs are generally OK. For a Ph.D. student, not much more than one industry rec would be commonly permissible, unless they're from an industrial research lab. For a Ph.D. student, a good industry rec will focus on character, strong work ethic and specific examples of problem-solving ability. Industrial assessment of research potential tends to be mentally damped by the reviewer unless the recommender has a Ph.D.