Pip! Pip! I sit on the admissions committee at an expensive private law school, and academic LORs typically follow this format:
First paragraph: why the author of the LOR is so great
Second paragraph: explanation of the class in which the author of the LOR taught applicant and how the class is so very challenging and/or unique in concept because of the author's academic prowess
Third paragraph (shortest): the grade the applicant received in the class and more descriptors of why that class was so amazing/challenging owing to the author's genius
Fourth paragraph: recommendation comes here couched alongside why the author is to be trusted for having this opinion and bestowing it upon the applicant.
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I'd take a 4-sentence Salman Rushdie email pdf over this malarkey 7/7 days of the week. Potato/tomato.
Pip! Pip! I sit on the admissions committee at an expensive private law school, and academic LORs typically follow this format:
First paragraph: why the author of the LOR is so great
Second paragraph: explanation of the class in which the author of the LOR taught applicant and how the class is so very challenging and/or unique in concept because of the author's academic prowess
Third paragraph (shortest): the grade the applicant received in the class and more descriptors of why that class was so amazing/challenging owing to the author's genius
Fourth paragraph: recommendation comes here couched alongside why the author is to be trusted for having this opinion and bestowing it upon the applicant.
-fin-
I'd take a 4-sentence Salman Rushdie email pdf over this malarkey 7/7 days of the week. Potato/tomato.