Recommendation

TO THE PRESON FURNISHING RECOMMENDATION: Please use this form for your recommendation and return it directly to the department names on the front of this form. 

1. Please assess the candidate's qualifications and promise as a graduate student. Of particular interest are your estimates of the applicant's intellectual ability and originality of mind; motivation and capacity for independent study, creative research and/or acquiring professional skill; promise for a career in productive scholarship and effective teaching; quality of any professional accomplishments to date and your judgement of his/her character and personality.

(Continue on additional sheet if necessary)

2. Please rate the applicant on the qualities listed below by a check mark and, if you wish, addcomments you think would be helpful. Use your standard of comparison other graduate students int his field at your institution.


upper 1-2% upper 5% upper 10% upper 25% below 50% No basis for judgment

 
 
 

Intellectual ability

Academic Preparation

Independence of thought

Judgment and maturity

Industry and motivation

Effectiveness of oral communication

Effectiveness of written communication

3. Potential of the applicant as a graduate teaching fellow or research fellow.

___Exceptional ___High ___Adequate ___Low ___No basis for judgment 

____ strongly recommended 

____ recommended 

this applicant for  ____ graduate admission 

___a graduate reward

4.
___ recommend with reservations

___ do not recommend 

Comments. _______________________________

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Signature_________________________________ Date _______________

Name ___________________________________ Title ________________

Institution ___________________________________________________

Address__________________________________________________________________
 

(Please return this form directly to the department to which the applicant is applying.)



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