Foreign LOR writers

[philosonista]

Hello, pre-meds and ADCOM's!

I've done a lot of work for my physics professor, through both achieving A's in her courses and serving as her dutiful research assistant for a sociology of STEM project. An LOR from her would speak well of me. However, her English is not perfect. I've read and edited her writing for a journal publication and though her English is understandable, it is sometimes awkward (i.e. Odd sentence structures, over-using words like "the"). Her name is not a dead give away that she is from another country. So one of my concerns is that admissions committees will believe her opinion of me doesn't warrant spending time on a well written LOR, when that is not the case.

Would admissions committees frown on a such a letter?

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[LizzyM]

Hello, pre-meds and ADCOM's!

I've done a lot of work for my physics professor, through both achieving A's in her courses and serving as her dutiful research assistant for a sociology of STEM project. An LOR from her would speak well of me. However, her English is not perfect. I've read and edited her writing for a journal publication and though her English is understandable, it is sometimes awkward (i.e. Odd sentence structures, over-using words like "the"). Her name is not a dead give away that she is from another country. So one of my concerns is that admissions committees will believe her opinion of me doesn't warrant spending time on a well written LOR, when that is not the case.

Would admissions committees frown on a such a letter?

We don't hold a faculty member's language skills against an applicant.

 

[Catalystik]

We don't hold a faculty member's language skills against an applicant.

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