In the graduate school application process, a person must secure several letters of recommendation, mostly from professors that can attest to your prowess/character/reasearch potential etc.
One of the graduate schools I'm looking into had a form the recommender is supposed to fill out and one of the statements goes something like this: "This student is the best you have have in __ years" and there are options for like 1, 5, 10, and 20. Imagine the student that would be the best a professor has seen in 20 years! That's highly improbable. Even "the best student this year" would be tough. And imagine if the professor gets 5 of these recommendation requests a year. He can only put anything down for one of the people!
Another thing you have to send in is a statement of purpose, including research interests. Uh, I have no idea sirs and ladies.
posted by Byran @ 4:28 PM
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So, you're thinking your chances at this are non-existent, or what?
Merry
Oh I don't know. There's got to be a 4.0 student that comes along every few years, and I'm not a 4.0. But GPA isn't the only measure to a prof of a "good student" I'm sure. To say a single person is the best student in 5 years, that is saying a lot.
Or maybe you were talking about research. I have very little knowledge of research topics in stats, but I'm very, very interested in research.
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