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Anyone else have horror stories about trying to get your most important/impressive/influential profs/advisors/etc to write letters in a timely fashion?
My first two writers whipped theirs in easy as pie, but the third was a nightmare, he was three weeks late and the schools were barking up my tree like mad. I was grateful for the personal attention from the admissions office, but dang, I haven't perfected the skill of mind control!
The prof said he'd do it, hadn't turned it in after a week. I emailed. He said he'd do it during week 2. Didn't do it. I emailed. Said he'd do it during week 3, finally at noon on Friday I emailed him again and he sent it in a couple hours later. I sighed with relief.
Week 4 admissions emails me again saying he turned in the form with no letter attached! Now I have the awkward task of asking him if he meant to do a half butt job or if his fax didn't go all the way through. Turns out he "wrote a lot of positive things" on the form, and didn't write a letter. Dude, he better have written some extremely positive things, just extremely succinctly.
I could understand if he'd seemed reluctant or delayed when I first asked, but he emailed back right away, said no problem.
Oy vey!
My first two writers whipped theirs in easy as pie, but the third was a nightmare, he was three weeks late and the schools were barking up my tree like mad. I was grateful for the personal attention from the admissions office, but dang, I haven't perfected the skill of mind control!
The prof said he'd do it, hadn't turned it in after a week. I emailed. He said he'd do it during week 2. Didn't do it. I emailed. Said he'd do it during week 3, finally at noon on Friday I emailed him again and he sent it in a couple hours later. I sighed with relief.
Week 4 admissions emails me again saying he turned in the form with no letter attached! Now I have the awkward task of asking him if he meant to do a half butt job or if his fax didn't go all the way through. Turns out he "wrote a lot of positive things" on the form, and didn't write a letter. Dude, he better have written some extremely positive things, just extremely succinctly.
I could understand if he'd seemed reluctant or delayed when I first asked, but he emailed back right away, said no problem.
Oy vey!
