PS meets LOR - Tailored, or General?

[Squarepants]

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I'm contacting my three LOR people over the next week with requests for letters, and packages of things ready to give them (envelopes, forms, etc), should they comply. The question is, should I also give them my tailored personal statements for each school? I'm only applying to a handful (<5), and I could have the tailored statements ready to go by the time I give them the packages. Alternatively, I could give them one copy of a generalized PS. However, since I'm basically writing each PS for scratch, I'd have to write a generalized one from scratch as well, since the others are all tailored from the ground up. So what do you suggest? 😎

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

A margarita. Almost all decisions are easier after enjoying a margarita.

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-t

 

[socialcog]

I'm contacting my three LOR people over the next week with requests for letters, and packages of things ready to give them (envelopes, forms, etc), should they comply. The question is, should I also give them my tailored personal statements for each school? I'm only applying to a handful (<5), and I could have the tailored statements ready to go by the time I give them the packages. Alternatively, I could give them one copy of a generalized PS. However, since I'm basically writing each PS for scratch, I'd have to write a generalized one from scratch as well, since the others are all tailored from the ground up. So what do you suggest? 😎

Maybe you could ask them? One of my people wanted my PS. Another wanted both my PS and my cv.

 

[JockNerd]

I included a summary sheet with my info to recommenders that listed the schools, the prof who I was interested in, and the specific research each prof did. That seems sufficient; including all your PSes seems like a ton of extra info that might be easily summarized. Good luck! 🙂