Getting Letter of Recommendations.

[SHINING]

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Hey, I was just getting around to asking my references to write me letters. For my college, it is required to have three reccs. One professor, employer, and personal with no relation.

I have chosen my FYC3 professor to write me the first letter, and I intend on volunteering soon to get an employer to write me the second. Only trouble that comes up, is the third.

This girl I met told me she could get me a higher up pharmacist to write me a recommendation, so I gladly accepted. Turns out he wants me to write it.

I was wondering, how would I go about writing this "personal" recommendation? He lives in California...

Thanks in advance.

 

[ALoveSupreme]

Are you saying that you have a pharmacist that will sign off on a letter that you wrote about yourself but make it appear to be written by him? I thought the point of a LOR is to have someone write about you and why they recommend you as a good candidate. Have you even spent time getting to know said pharmacist? Clarify me if I misunderstood.

 

[ReptarBar]

yo calm down it happens all the time. its not a big deal...if the pharmacist signs it off then whats the problem? some people just dont like writing recs in general so they ask the student to write it. its a very common thing for med so im sure its similar for pharm.

 

[ALoveSupreme]

yo calm down it happens all the time. its not a big deal...if the pharmacist signs it off then whats the problem? some people just dont like writing recs in general so they ask the student to write it. its a very common thing for med so im sure its similar for pharm.

As long as it's alright, then cool. But do they really just hand them out like that? I would hope the OP at least met with the pharmacist.

 

[SHINING]

To be honest, I met him once somewhat briefly last summer. I didn't know this girl was his niece till recently.

But yeah, you have the jist of what I'm getting at. My main problem is I don't know what this personal recommendation should require, which is what I'm asking suggestions for.

 

[ALoveSupreme]

To be honest, I met him once somewhat briefly last summer. I didn't know this girl was his niece till recently.

But yeah, you have the jist of what I'm getting at. My main problem is I don't know what this personal recommendation should require, which is what I'm asking suggestions for.

Well, that's going to be a little tough since these letters usually contain information such as how long they've known you, their experiences working with you, skills that you've shown to them that make you stand out, etc. The pharmacist would at least need to know you at a more personal level, but that's a little difficult given your circumstances isn't it?

Then again, you could lie about all of it. LOL

 

[SHINING]

I intend on lying/buttering it up a bit. But I'm not trying to make it something outrageous, which is why it'd be nice if I got suggestions instead of moral questions.

 

[SHINING]

Suggestions please?

 

[roziak]

How do you lie/butter up a LOR? Most schools make the person filling out the LOR send it directly to the university or seal it and not allow anyone to open it until it gets to the admissions committee.

And usually you don't fill out the information on the LOR, the person you give it to does...

If you can't find someone to write you a real LOR then just go to a recent professor you had that you got a A/B in.

 

[themulya]

Suggestions please?

Please STFU and do it yourself. In all reality, there is nothing any of us can do to stop you from cheating the system, but that doesn't mean we have to help you to.

 

[busyizzy]

Suggestions please?

Suggestions to .... cheat?

Well if you insist....

How about you write about how you cured AIDs and cancer with one drug, and that your LOR person thinks you are the most brilliant, amazing student he's ever met. You also helped out in the soup kitchen and you solved the problem of overpopulation in the world, and don't forget to include lots of spelled and grammar errors, as wELL as WriTinG liEk Dis. That's bound to get you an interview!

 

[delano2000]

Suggestions to .... cheat?

Well if you insist....

How about you write about how you cured AIDs and cancer with one drug, and that your LOR person thinks you are the most brilliant, amazing student he's ever met. You also helped out in the soup kitchen and you solved the problem of overpopulation in the world, and don't forget to include lots of spelled and grammar errors, as wELL as WriTinG liEk Dis. That's bound to get you an interview!

 

[Ji the Captain]

Suggestions please?

This guy must be joking?? I've NEVER heard of a situation where you write your own LOR. "well I know a random girl, and she knows another random pharmacist that told me to write my own letter. here it is....


GREAT! your accepted!! would you like cake??

 

[musicman123]

This guy must be joking?? I've NEVER heard of a situation where you write your own LOR. "well I know a random girl, and she knows another random pharmacist that told me to write my own letter. here it is....


GREAT! your accepted!! would you like cake??

No, he's super duper serial. Excellcior!!

 

[pharm B]

I'm not sure why you resurrected this thread, but I will say that it's not a rare practice to be asked to write your own LOR and then give it to the professor to sign. They pretty much just dummy check it to make sure you didn't claim you'd rescued them in a lab experiment gone awry, etc.

I've seen this done when the professor knew the student well, but it might also be done when there is a large class and your face-to-face time with the prof has been minimal. Instead of him trying to figure out who you are, you let him know and he signs off on it.

 

[MathDebate]

I'm not sure why you resurrected this thread, but I will say that it's not a rare practice to be asked to write your own LOR and then give it to the professor to sign. They pretty much just dummy check it to make sure you didn't claim you'd rescued them in a lab experiment gone awry, etc.

I've seen this done when the professor knew the student well, but it might also be done when there is a large class and your face-to-face time with the prof has been minimal. Instead of him trying to figure out who you are, you let him know and he signs off on it.

How taboo is it for the student to right-off-the-bat offer to write the LOR if she knows the professor will be busy for the next few weeks?

 

[pharm B]

If you're confident and don't come off as sleazy, I don't think it's inappropriate to offer to write it.

 

[UCSF13]

who cares, just write it yourself. I wrote a letter for myself and had a pharmacist sign off on it. Everyone on here is going to start crying and saying how you're going to be a bad pharmacist bla bla bla because you're writing your own letter. In reality, it's no one's business and if the pharmacist is OK with signing off on it, then do it! The truth is no one can do anything about it so who cares what people on here think or say. Just don't ask me what I wrote or what you should write because I don't know you and you should know yourself

Hey, I was just getting around to asking my references to write me letters. For my college, it is required to have three reccs. One professor, employer, and personal with no relation.

I have chosen my FYC3 professor to write me the first letter, and I intend on volunteering soon to get an employer to write me the second. Only trouble that comes up, is the third.

This girl I met told me she could get me a higher up pharmacist to write me a recommendation, so I gladly accepted. Turns out he wants me to write it.

I was wondering, how would I go about writing this "personal" recommendation? He lives in California...

Thanks in advance.