Questions regarding LOR...

[PathforwardtoDPT]

I tried searching, but couldn't find these specific questions:

I have a LOR lined up from a therapist, but he only just recently graduated like 3 years ago. Would this affect the LOR in a objectively negative way regardless of how great he writes the LOR? More specifically, do schools take into account how established/experienced a PT is when looking at who is writing the LORs?

What kind of questions are asked to the therapists by PTCAS? My understanding is that it asks a few specific questions on the character of the applicant as well as the actual main recommendation? What kind of prompts are they? I have a past employer asking what to emphasize on when writing the LOR and I told him I'd do some research and get back to him on it.

Any information will help! Thanks!

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[redrose424]

I tried searching, but couldn't find these specific questions:

I have a LOR lined up from a therapist, but he only just recently graduated like 3 years ago. Would this affect the LOR in a objectively negative way regardless of how great he writes the LOR? More specifically, do schools take into account how established/experienced a PT is when looking at who is writing the LORs?

What kind of questions are asked to the therapists by PTCAS? My understanding is that it asks a few specific questions on the character of the applicant as well as the actual main recommendation? What kind of prompts are they? I have a past employer asking what to emphasize on when writing the LOR and I told him I'd do some research and get back to him on it.

Any information will help! Thanks!

1) No
2) No one knows unless their recommender showed them the form, and that isn't to say it doesn't change.

 

[Phyline]

1. No. They are looking at input from a current DPT on whether you can make a good DPT. My LOR came from a girl who was basically my age and graduated 2 years ago.

 

[SuperSwimming244]

See page 64 of the PTCAS Applicant Data report from 2014-2015. I'm pretty sure that they use the same ranking questions as back then, and I'm sure that they have a "free-response" section to write about you, but here's a small glimpse of what your references will "grade" you on
http://www.ptcas.org/uploadedFiles/...ApplicantDataRpt.pdf#page=66&zoom=auto,69,717

 

[PathforwardtoDPT]

Fantastic. Thanks for the information guys!

 

[DesertPT]

Have you read the PTCAS instruction manual? All the questions that reference writers are asked are listed.

 

[PathforwardtoDPT]

Have you read the PTCAS instruction manual? All the questions that reference writers are asked are listed.

Wow I didn't even know there was one! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!