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I glanced down off the trail and noticed a deep pool with a strong current going through it. There was a steep downhill slide to the pool, but if I had learned anything about backcountry fishing, it was that pools like this are worth fishing. I scrambled down and let my "hopper-dropper" float through the rapid. The hopper almost immediately popped under, indicating something had taken my "dropper" (in this case a copper john). I caught one hard-fighting, 16" cut-throat on each sides of the pool. As I climbed back onto the trail, I felt fully alive and in love with backcountry fishing. Over a fire that night, my friend Benn and I discussed our amazing two days of fishing in the Bob Marshall.
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I followed my father on many of his favorite hunts from about nine years of age. About the years that a young man was able to walk through the woods; of course at a pace that was reasonable as to not annoy him (as the hunter) too quick of movements when you're too young--I learned that wild places were the norm from a young age. My father was a depression-era baby. Hard work was his norm. Wild-places renewed him. The fact that he was 48 when I was born may have kept him young at heart, or the time away from hard work was plain easy. And, it's possible the pace he moved in the mountains was because it provided a great feeling of freedom when one's heart is pounding, the views are far reaching and seeing another human rare. His over-the-ground pace as I remember was overwhelming at times and I wondered even then how he could "do it" for a forty-year smoker.
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"letter of request" or "request letter"?
I know "letter of recommendation" is natural, but what about "recommendation letter"?
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"Letter of request" sounds more proper. "Letter of recommendation" is what I always see and use, and as for "letter of complaint", it also sounds better than "complaint letter". Most times, I suppose you would use "Letter of..." rather than "... letter"
"Letter of recommendation" is the only one of those I've heard used. "Recommendation letter" sounds weird and off. I've never heard anybody say in my 16 years of living "Letter of complain" nor "complain letter". One would simply say "complaint" the fact that it is a letter is understood through context. This at least my experience. By the way I'm from USA, if that helps.
I think the 2nd one
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Hotel is very convenient to airport, so ideal if you have an early plane from San Jose. Staff is very friendly and helpful. Parking is 1 block down the street @ $5/ night if you rent a car. Breakfast has delicious fruit We stayed a few hours in am after an overnight flight while waiting for friends to arrive later. It was great to have breakfast, take a shower and sleep in a bed for a few hours at reasonable price. Not necessarily a good location for exploring San Jose
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At a recent show in L.A. (disclosure: at my house), sneaky snakes George Jensen and Ian James wired up somewhere between five and eight keyboards across a couple tables and chairs with various speakers, mixers, and junk growing up out of the corners — everything that happens to a living room when there's a house show; they were practically building a fort of keyboards. Then George changed into this frock, looking like a Sherpa about to lead us on a treacherous mountain path, and everybody in the room settles on the floor, staring up as if someone's going to read us a story; the lights go red, and they let rip… not a screaming assault of noise, not a psychedelic freak out, but a slow-motion sonic river of soft-as-snow notes that lulls us all to trance. In his hat, George is climbing on some piece of furniture and holding up this kaossillator to the sky waiting for a lightning bolt, but it's just this gentle wash unfolding like jasmine tea pearls. It was a great show.
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The second vinyl LP from Arkansas' stone-cold drone king Pink Priest is two 18-minute slabs of textural exploration, levitating tones, and implied melody. This music video for the entire A side of Swallow Your Dreams is like the dreams of a TV set left on overnight. Pieces of flipped channels, flickering color forms, slow frames moving in and out half-superimposed, pictures of domesticity contrasted with vast expanses of nature that could be the b-roll from a Nova special, weird fragments, all smashed together and dipped in some kind of static video buzz; dripping with atmosphere, virtuously boring and beautiful. William Cody Watson of PP says the album is about "the end of certain things, but also a realization of reconstruction, hope, decay, balance, and progression." Pre-order it from French label La Station Radar.
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AbstractThe title compound, 4-[(anthracen-9-ylmethylene)amino]-1,5-dimethyl-2-phenyl-1,2-dihydropyrazol-3-one (3), was synthesized in high yield by reaction of anthracene-9-carbaldehyde and 4-aminoantipyrine in ethanol. The structure of this new compound was confirmed by elemental analysis, IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and GC-MS spectral data.
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Ayutthaya was once one of the richest cities in the world and the capital of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, the precursor to modern Thailand. It was sacked by the Burmese in 1767, bringing down both the city and the kingdom. It's estimated that its population was more than 300,000 by the early 1600s, and grew to almost a million inhabitants in the early 1700s — a truly staggering number, that if true, would have made Ayutthaya the largest city in the world.The royal capital's fall from grace was so quick and the evacuation of the population so sudden that the extensive temple complexes were abandoned to sit unused for years before the city repopulated. The old royal palace and many other structures were almost completely destroyed by the invaders. Most of the temples still sit unused, although many have been partially restored. It's a haunting testament to how quickly a civilization can fall.
There are many options for day trips to Ayutthaya, but we firmly believe that there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. The right way involves bicycles, picnic lunches among the ruins and plenty of time for lazing about. The wrong way involves a minibus tour from Khao San or Silom, getting hauled around at lightening-speed, and a lot of aggravation. Choose wisely.
Located 80 kilometres north of Bangkok, Ayutthaya isn't hard to get to. The train runs right through town, buses run multiple times an hour, and public vans shoot back and forth constantly. The train is the slowest at two and a half hours, the cheapest at 35 baht for a 3rd class carriage, and the most beautiful, passing through kilometres of bright green rice paddies, fresh water ponds, and herds of water buffalo on the way. Minivans are the fastest option, leaving from Victory Monument (take BTS Exit 2 and u-turn at the bottom of the stair way, the van loading station will be to your right less than 25 metres away, between the mall and a 7-Eleven) and only taking 75 minutes — busses split the difference between speed and cost, but leave from Morchit station in the north of Bangkok.
Once in Ayutthaya, biking around is great fun. Traffic is light, and many times you'll be the only one cruising through some of the ruins. There are several places that rent bikes for the day (50 baht) clustered around the cross-river ferry near the train station, on the backpacker strip near where the buses and minibuses drop off, and near the ruins.
Street food is plentiful, especially around the hospital to the west of the main ruins. Grab some food to go and eat laying in the shade of the trees growing around the ruins. You don't really need a map or a guide book for Ayutthaya; just ask whoever you rent a bike from which way to ride, and away you'll go. Ask anyone in town and they'll point you towards the main cluster of ruins. Part of the fun is discovering some of the quiet wats that are out of the way, off leafy side streets. Some sites have nominal entry fees, while the main temple complexes each cost 50 to 100 baht per person.
An afternoon beer next to the river rounds the day off nicely, followed by either a speedy van ride back to Bangkok or a lazy train journey. Or you could skip the beer and squeeze in Ayutthaya's outlying temples, reachable by tuk tuk for around 500 baht depending on your negotiating skills. If that sounds like too much for one day, just settle into one of Ayutthaya's many cheap, quality guesthouses for an overnight.Last updated: 26th May, 2015
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Now is the Time to Kill the Grading Curve
By David Laude, Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment and Graduation Management
Published: June 23
Rich students usually graduate from college. Poor students usually don't.
That's the theory The New York Times Magazine put forward in a recent article that highlighted my efforts at the University of Texas at Austin to improve graduation rates among economically disadvantaged students by addressing the psychological obstacles they face.
What the article did not address directly is the underlying reason why many students don't graduate: the grading curve — the venerable measure that instructors use to separate the best students from the worst. End up too far to the left on the bell curve too often and your chances of graduating fall sharply. And historically, that has applied disproportionately to the disadvantaged.
The success of the strategies being developed at UT-Austin to help at-risk students raise another question about the curve: If more disadvantaged students are now passing, will instructors need to find other students to fail?
The idea of education as competition — in which instructors select for the best and in some cases forget the rest — often hurts students, especially freshmen, who are finding their footing. In fact, the first exams students take a month after starting college tell us what we already know: that a student with a high SAT score is less likely to fail than a student with a lower SAT score.
It is a vital mission of higher education institutions to identify the next Nobel laureate among our students. But that is only one of our responsibilities, and ranking students when they should still be on the practice field does little to identify the next laureate and, worse, potentially discards them before the game begins.
The good news is that innovations in technology and teaching are giving us better ways to educate our new students. I began to see this firsthand a few years ago and decided to stop using the grading curve I'd once embraced. These days, I walk into class on the first day of the semester and tell my 500 freshman chemistry students that every one of them can earn an A. Armed with clear expectations for my students and a more positive perspective on student success, I do everything I can to help them master the material. In the process, I have changed my course (which combines lectures and online instruction) to provide students with 24/7 access to the content they need. This gives me more time to motivate students and help them develop study skills. I also use a more flexible grading structure that incentivizes students to study harder rather than give up after that first exam.
I still have a long way to go, but I'm getting better. This spring, more than half of my students earned A's, twice as many as a decade ago. To those who are quick to argue grade inflation, I can assure you my course material has only gotten more challenging through the years, and more importantly, far more learning is going on now than before.
As I make these improvements, I realize I have some serious competition in my effort to help students succeed. I see this new competition every time my children and their friends are playing video games, which familiarize our children with learning and adapting quickly in a low-stakes digital environment. Video games may sound antithetical to learning, but the ability to lose several times while steadily improving —without being locked out of the game — can be transferred to the classroom.
Online educators understand very well the potential of gamification — the use of game elements in everyday settings, like school and work — in breaking the grading curve. On campus, we need to understand that the traditional brick-and-mortar approach to teaching, despite all its advantages, puts physical and temporal constraints on student success.
In the coming years, I imagine that the most successful teaching models will effectively blend the very best of what technology has to offer with the value that only comes with face-to-face learning. What should disappear in the process is the grading curve. New strategies will be needed for ranking our students and guiding them toward professional schools and into the workforce, but there will also be a lot more educated talent to spread around — and Texas will be much the better for it.
David Laude is the senior vice provost for enrollment and graduation management and a professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin.
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After spending a year and a half at the British broadcasting station Fuse TV, the model-TV presenter is taking time off from a nine-to-five job to do something a little more personal and creative: fulfilling her lifelong dream of creating a fashion line. "I've kind of been doing Eyeko, I wrote a book, I did Fuse every day, and various other design gigs and DJing," Chung told Fashionista last week. "So this will be the first time to actually sort of sit down and think about it. I'm going to get it off the ground hopefully in 2014."
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Who knew that legs emerging from a plane would inspired so many captions about lost earrings, carnivorous aircraft, and close quarter combat? We went straight to the top for this one, and asked Debra Steidel Wall, our newly named Deputy Archivist, to be our guest judge.
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So what's really happening here? The original caption reads: "Workmen at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, California. Two women employees working through the bombardier's hatch., 08/1943″ (ARC 520739)
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Last week's photo featured the face, but this week's photo features the . . . legs. Give us your wittiest caption in the comments below!
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Call him John. Call him Mr. Poppins. But do not call him neglectful of his strict skin-care regime. Or so says this week's winner, Janis!
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Brown's inquiry follows another that his office launched into HMO practices "of reviewing and paying insurance claims submitted by doctors, hospital and other medical providers" last September. That investigation was prompted by reports that California's five largest health insurance companies were denying insurance claims at rates of up to 39.6%. Also, Anthem Blue Cross recently announced it planned to hike premium rates by as much as 39% for some individual insurance members.
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Three student journalists no longer work for Rochester Institute of Technology's Reporter magazine after "discoveries of plagiarism within two recent stories," according to College Media Matters. The Reporter is identified as "the nation's only full-color weekly college magazine."
The Reporter retracted the articles in question and apologized for the plagiarism and for "allowing this breach of journalistic professionalism to take place."
In a "statement from the editorial board" posted on The Reporter's website April 20, the newspaper explains that RIT SportsZone told The Reporter that a Reporter article used "verbatim" content from both "student-run…bi-weekly television program" SportsZone and the RIT University News.
The editorial board note explained that the magazine looked at the article in question and "determined that an alarming amount of content was taken from these two sources, as well as from the College Television Awards website, without attribution." The note mentioned that in the review, the board also spotted errors. The magazine looked over "the writer's entire body of work" and found another instance of plagiarism. That writer wasn't named, but the two plagiarized articles are identfied as "RIT SportsZone: Rising to the Top" and "A Woman's Guide to Manscaping."
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The plagiarism incident was described as "an embarrassment" and a "breakdown" in the editorial process. Moving forward, the magazine said it will beef up "training" for the "editorial board," consider getting "anti-plagiarism sotware" and examine "our editorial policy regarding fact checking and attribution."
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Consult Christine: All Things Interview!
By Jessica Daniels On October 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Admissions Tips, Fletcher's Admissions Policies
Today, Christine gives you all the details on Fletcher's evaluative interview program. Remember to check this page when you plan your interview!
The Evaluative Interview program has kicked into high gear! Appointments are starting to fill throughout the fall, leading to many happy interviewers, who are eager to get to know you!
By now you may be thinking, how can I interview and meet one of Fletcher's highly trained student interviewers? Well, I am here to answer your interview-related questions.
What is an evaluative interview? Great question! A personal evaluative interview is a valuable way for you to share information about yourself and learn how The Fletcher School will meet your academic and professional goals.
Should I interview? The interview is recommended, but not required, for all applicants; however, PhD applicants are encouraged to interview.
When should I have my interview? Interviews should generally be completed at least one week prior to the application deadline. The interview program kicked off on September 23 and will run through Friday, December 6. Interviews are offered Monday through Friday during business hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Additional interviews will be conducted on a very limited basis until January 9.
When should I schedule my interview? You should schedule your interview as soon as possible, once you have an idea when you would like to visit. We have a good number of appointments available, so it is helpful if you can name a few dates that would be convenient for you. (Note, though, that dates in late November and December fill early!) If you are visiting from out of town (or even down the street!), you may want to schedule your interview in conjunction with an Information Session. More details regarding Information Session dates and times can be found here.
How should I schedule my interview? Please call the office directly at +1.617.627.3040. You should have dates and times in mind when you call, to allow us to best schedule you! If you are unable to call, you can also schedule your interview by email, though this can involve a long back-and-forth process until we find a convenient date. Scheduling by phone is more efficient.
I'm all scheduled! Now what? Once you have scheduled an appointment, you will receive an email confirmation with the date and time of your interview. Make sure you save and read this email thoroughly as it includes directions to the school, as well as what to bring with you (your resume!), practical suggestions (how to dress), and even hints as to the interview content!
If you have questions about the interview program or anything else Admissions related, please call us at +1.617.627.3040 or send us an email.
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While Christine is busy getting the on-campus interview program up and running (leaving little time to being consulted), I'll step in to offer a tip for your communication with the office. No matter what the linguistic origin of your name, you may refer to yourself in a way that is different from your legal name. Robert might call himself Bob, or Xiaoyu might call herself Shelley. Totally normal in everyday life!
But grad school applications are not exactly like everyday life, and I want to encourage you to refer to yourself in a consistent way, or at least help us to connect your application materials by informing us of the name(s) you've used. Shelley might, for example, put Xiaoyu in parentheses, so that it's clear both how she prefers to be called and also that she has a legal name that is different. Just be sure that we'll know who you are, and please don't rely on our memories, which may or may not work on a given day.
On a related note, be sure that email correspondence actually notes both your first and last name. Sometimes we try to file correspondence and discover that the writer hasn't provided a last name. This is even more true if your email address doesn't include your full name. (A special email address that includes your name could be a good addition to your application. It helps us keep track of things if your email address is email@example.com, instead of, say, firstname.lastname@example.com.)
All of this is to say that you're best served in the admissions process by professional-level correspondence. And anything you can do to help us keep your materials organized will help you in the long run!
Consult Christine: Connect with Us!
By Jessica Daniels On September 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Admissions Tips, General Admissions News
With the graduation of Dear Ariel last spring came a dilemma. Who would write a weekly blog post answering applicants' hot questions? The answer was as plain as the front desk of the Admissions Office — Christine has the FletcherAdmissions email inbox clearly in her sight at all times. Thus, Consult Christine was born. Today, Christine provides her perspective on the most efficient ways to connect with us.
After a year of sitting at the "Command Center" of the office, I have fielded calls, emails, and walk-ins with many different questions. I often hear, "I am not sure if this was the right way to reach you," or "I am not sure if this is the right place to be asking," so I thought I would take the opportunity for my first Consult Christine post to break down the best ways to reach us. From Information Sessions to Interviews, and Visit Days to off-campus events, we have a lot going on this fall and want you to be able to contact us in the most efficient way possible.
With the Evaluative Interview program starting on September 23, it is timely to start with this! I will have an upcoming post going into more depth on the interview program, but for now the best way to schedule an interview is to call us at +1 617-627-3040. This is the easiest option for both you and us, so we can tell you what times are available and you can provide us with all the information we need. Plus, it's a great opportunity for you to ask questions. If you are not able to reach us by phone, you can certainly email us to set up an appointment. But I would encourage you to call if you can!
Information Sessions, which will be in full swing starting next week, are a great way to get a general feel for Fletcher, see the campus, and interact with students and staff. The best way to register for an Information Session is to use our online registration portal. However, if you are already on the phone with us, we would be happy to register you. The same applies for Visit Events.
Questions or comments can be forwarded by phone or email. We answer email in all of our inboxes consistently, and try to have answers to you in a timely fashion. I would recommend email if you have more in-depth questions! If you feel that it would suit you better to call us with questions, we welcome the opportunity to talk with you over the phone. Both staff and our team of student interns is happy to speak with you about whatever you may need.
And you can always pop in for a visit! We welcome visitors to Fletcher to chat with an Admissions Officer, sit in on a class, or interact with our students. Note that the office is open from 9:00 to 5:00 U.S. East Coast time.
I look forward to hearing from you as the year goes on, however you choose to connect with us!
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Interviews, the Fletcher way
By Jessica Daniels On September 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Admissions Tips, General Admissions News
There's a certain irony that the week when Fletcher turns lively is also a week when I don't have much time to write about it in the blog. I'll do better next week!
Meanwhile, I wanted to say a quick word about the Fletcher approach to admissions interviews.
We'll be kicking off the season for on-campus interviews on Monday, September 23. There is also an option to record an interview as part of your application. Both forms of interviews are strictly optional. But I would encourage you to try to include one in your application.
We're going to have plenty to say about both the on-campus and online interviews in the coming weeks. Today, I'll just cover two key organizational points about scheduling an on-campus interview.
Point One: Interviews are generally offered only through the first week of December, and most applicants plan to schedule their interview before submitting their application. It isn't an invitation process — it's your decision. (Yes, I know that many professional schools take a different approach, but their approach is not relevant for your Fletcher application.) So if you're going to want to interview on campus, you should make your plans to visit now.
Point Two: If you're going to visit, you should call us soon to schedule your interview. Right now, there are appointments available nearly every hour on nearly every day (Monday to Friday) throughout the fall. Come up with a visit concept (date, morning/afternoon) and then call (or email, though calling can be more efficient) and grab a time.
As I said, more details will follow, but I want to get the word out there that now is a good time to plan your Fletcher visit.
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Quantophobe? Read this.
By Jessica Daniels On August 1, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Admissions Tips, General Admissions News
A prospective applicant asks: What can an applicant with a less quantitative background do before applying, to enhance chances of admission?
My answer is going to depend on the applicant's goals and where the applicant is in life.
If the applicant is still pursuing an undergraduate degree, my advice is certainly to take micro- and macro-economics and statistics courses before graduating. A solid economics foundation is what many of our peer schools are looking for, too.
If that undergraduate ship has already sailed, and if the applicant is interested in Fletcher's MIB program or a quant-focused curriculum in the MALD, MA, or PhD program, I would generally suggest either taking classes in economics and/or statistics before applying, or at least making arrangements to take them before the wished-for enrollment date. Getting strong grades for the quantitative work before applying is particularly important for those who either have lackluster quantitative scores on the GRE or GMAT exams, or who had only modest success in quantitative courses while an undergraduate. (If you can do better than your grades or test scores indicate, you'll want to prove it!) If, on the other hand, you can present evidence (such as test scores and grades) of strong quantitative ability, you may be able to get away with simply telling us in advance of your January-to-August plan to make up for your lack of quantitative training before starting Fletcher classes.
If the applicant predicts a complete life of quantophobia and has no interest in quantitative Fields of Study at Fletcher, I would probably suggest taking economics and statistics/quantitative reasoning before enrolling anyway, but not necessarily for admissions purposes. So long as past testing and course grades demonstrate adequate command of quantitative matters, what the Admissions Committee will want to see is proof of ability to survive our basic economics and quantitative reasoning classes (or even to test out of them).
What does this lack of a single standard mean? It means that, for all degree programs, Fletcher's Admissions Committees review an applicant's full application. There's never a lone criterion on which decisions are based. Rather, depending on which degree program an applicant hopes to pursue, we look at all the information in an application to gauge potential for success both overall, and in quantitative coursework in particular.
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Pick your own deadline
By Jessica Daniels On July 31, 2013 · 4 Comments · In Admissions Tips, General Admissions News
Sticking with the idea of helping this year's applicants get their minds around the process, I'm going to lay out the application deadlines for you. In fact, you can find them on our website, but my contribution will be to format them in an even plainer way. Then, assuming you're applying to one of the programs with more than one deadline, you can pick your own. Here are the dates and the details on which program applications are due on those days.
October 15
Deadline for January 2014 enrollment in the MALD program. This is the only deadline for January enrollment, and only MALD students may apply to start their studies in January.
November 15
Early Notification deadline for September 2014 enrollment in the MALD, MA, MIB, or LLM programs.
December 20
Deadline for September 2014 enrollment in the PhD program. Note that this is the only deadline for the PhD program.
Early Notification deadline for Map Your Future applicants to MALD and MIB programs.
January 10
Regular deadline for September 2014 enrollment in MALD, MA, MIB, or LLM programs.
February 10
Final deadline (no scholarship consideration) for MALD and MA programs.
March 1
Final deadline (no scholarship consideration) for MIB and LLM programs.
May 15
Regular deadline for Map Your Future applicants to MALD and MIB programs.
Once you've made your choice, mark it in your calendar. And then also put a note on the day one week before the deadline. That's the date you should aim for, to minimize wear and tear on the brain and nerves.
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Guiding your recommenders
By Jessica Daniels On July 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Admissions Tips, General Admissions News
Swinging back to application-related topics, a prospective student asked me to write about the sort of information that should be provided to a recommender when requesting a letter. GOOD QUESTION! Applicants don't always maximize the value of their recommendations. For example, the best (i.e. most convincing) person to explain the reasons behind a student's academic difficulties is a professor, but few applicants ask their professors to provide context on their overall academic record.
This summer, we've pulled together some suggestions for recommenders. Eventually, the list will find a home on the website where recommenders can see it, but today's post offers a sneak preview of points that could be helpful as you ask professors and supervisors to write for you.
First, though, some suggestions for you, as recommendation requester:
- Tip #1 is to give the recommender plenty of time/warning to write the recommendation letter. You can't expect a high quality letter if you're making requests two days before the deadline. (Also be sure to make the deadline clear.)
- Tip #2 is to share your résumé and your statement of purpose (first application essay) with your recommender. The statement will tell your recommender what you hope to accomplish at Fletcher, so that the letter can be relevant to your goals.
- Tip #3 is to provide your recommender with a little information about Fletcher. Though many letters we receive each year were written by people whose names we see regularly, you shouldn't assume that someone knows the school. It's frustrating for us when we read a letter about an applicant's potential for law school.
And now, our suggestions for the recommender:
A typical letter of recommendation for a Fletcher application is between one and two pages in length. A letter that is too short may provide insufficient detail, while a letter that is longer than two pages may be more than needed for the application. Your letter will be of greatest value if you provide specific and targeted observations, particularly regarding your personal interactions with the applicant.
If you are writing about the applicant's academic experience:
- Indication of why a student succeeded (or failed) in a class is helpful. Even if it seems obvious that an "A" grade demonstrates the student's strength, the context for the grade is useful. The academic recommendations are among the few qualitative ways we have to understand a student's academic capacity, and we appreciate understanding how a student excels (not simply that the student did excel). It can also be useful when recommenders mention what percent of students get an A in the class.
- Be sure to note it if a student took the time to get to know you outside of class (through research, office hours, etc.). This is often a helpful indicator of how they will act in graduate school.
If you are writing about the applicant's professional experience:
- It is useful to know about the applicant's progress in and contributions to your organization, rather than simply what position the individual held.
- If the applicant performed any functions that are relevant to academic work, it is helpful if you bring them to our attention. Some examples are research, writing, data collection or analysis, or work within a team.
- An assessment of the applicant's professional potential also contributes to our evaluation of the application. As a professional school, we want to know that students will be able to achieve their career goals.
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Dear Ariel's last answer
By Jessica Daniels On April 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Admissions Tips, General Admissions News, Our Students
Today is the last day of classes for the spring 2013 semester, and it's also the last day of Fletcher classes for (Dear) Ariel. There are many second-year students I will wish to thank in person or in the blog for their contributions to the community, and Ariel will be the first.
Ariel started work as an Admissions Intern in September 2011 and she is the quiet super-charged engine of the student staff. There's no task that she doesn't complete efficiently, and that includes writing a Dear Ariel column. A typical week had me sauntering over to her on a Tuesday at noon and asking if, based on questions turning up by email, she had any ideas for a blog post. By 12:30, a perfect piece of writing was in my inbox.
Ariel's final column today returns to the basics of advising prospective applicants. Next year I'll face the challenge of finding another writer who may come close to Ariel's efficiency and skill. For now: Thanks, Dear Ariel!
Dear Ariel: Is my GPA competitive for Fletcher?
Every student admitted by Fletcher's Committee on Admissions must be able to succeed in Fletcher classes, and the applicant's academic profile is the most important aspect of an application. But academic potential (which is indicated primarily by GPA, test scores, and recommendations) is still only one part of the application. We seek students who, by virtue of their background, achievement, and experience, can contribute to the education of their peers and to the scholarship and practice of international relations. Even a strong GPA, in the absence of international and professional experience, does not guarantee admission. Since Fletcher students come from a broad range of educational backgrounds that utilize different grading scales, calculating an average GPA for all admitted students is impossible. Among admitted students who attended colleges or universities using a 4.0 scale, the middle fifty percent of GPAs has fallen in the range of 3.4 to 3.8 in recent years.
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Ariel goes back to basics
By Jessica Daniels On February 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Admissions Tips, Fletcher's Admissions Policies, General Admissions News
Even during the heart of the admissions process, applicants write in with questions about whether their applications are competitive. Here Ariel makes a rare Tuesday appearance to lay it all out in the most basic way.
Dear Ariel: What are the characteristics of a successful MALD applicant?
Fletcher actively seeks to enroll a diverse class of students who have demonstrated academic excellence, have a wide range of personal, professional, and academic experience, and have a strong commitment to an international career. We seek students who, by virtue of their background, achievement, and experience, can contribute to the education of their peers and to the scholarship and practice of international relations. In general, applicants must demonstrate research ability and a strong familiarity with a second language, and hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent. All students must have proven English language proficiency. Fletcher students come from a wide range of undergraduate majors, including international relations and other social sciences, the humanities, business, and physical sciences and engineering. It is suggested (but not required) that students take microeconomics and macroeconomics prior to enrollment.
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Infrequently asked question
By Jessica Daniels On February 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Admissions Tips, Fletcher's Admissions Policies, General Admissions News
This seems like a good time to provide an admissions process update. As I've written before, the Fletcher Admissions Committee is reviewing cases every week — even as we keep reading. Other schools may review all the applications in a series of end-of-process mega-sessions, but that's not how we do it, and we still have several weekly Admissions Committee meetings left. We also have a new crop of applications that arrived by the February 10 deadline. Some have already been read, while others are waiting for those last recommendations or other credentials.
Even after all the applications have been reviewed, there's a lot more work to be done, including scholarship consideration. Personally, I don't quite see the light at the end of the tunnel. More of a halfway-there feeling.
This is also a convenient moment to answer a question that blog readers may be thinking, but aren't necessarily asking. That is: I submitted my application in January (or November or February). Is there anything I should be adding to it now?
The answer is that there aren't useful additions now, with one big exception. If you have new test scores, new grades for fall 2012 courses, or a résumé that reflects a new job, then I would encourage you to send them in. You never know — the Admissions Committee may be holding on your application, in hopes that your most recent grades will arrive. Or maybe that promotion at your job might be just enough to nudge your application toward admission. So if you have new information in one of those categories, please send it in.
I also should say that some additional information is just not helpful. Have you been kicking yourself since January 10 about a typo in your personal statement? The best policy is simply to let it go. Sending an updated personal statement, or a résumé with a new font but no new content, is not likely to boost your cause, and may have a negative effect. So stop ruminating over a phrase that could have been worded more elegantly, and use your time to think through your financial plans, as well as to enjoy this quiet moment before grad schools start releasing decisions next month.
And now, I'm off to this week's Admissions Committee meeting!
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