Title for LoR writers

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If they're not Professors in the rigorous sense of the word i.e. with PhDs or tenured, etc. for the title are we still allowed to put Prof. as the title?

For example I have a non-science gsi write my letter. She is finishing up her PhD.

Also a science writer has multiple credentials but didn't get a PhD but still taught a microbio course.

 

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If they're not Professors in the rigorous sense of the word i.e. with PhDs or tenured, etc. for the title are we still allowed to put Prof. as the title?

For example I have a non-science gsi write my letter. She is finishing up her PhD.

Also a science writer has multiple credentials but didn't get a PhD but still taught a microbio course.

Does it matter? I would typically look up their title, ie Professor, Associate Professor, Teaching Instructor, etc. on the university's website. At my school we have plenty of faculty that have their PhD but for salary/job purposes are designated as "Teaching Instructor." I guess you could mention PhD Candidate, but I think the content of the letter and your relationship with the LOR writer is more important than any title.

 

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Does it matter? I would typically look up their title, ie Professor, Associate Professor, Teaching Instructor, etc. on the university's website. At my school we have plenty of faculty that have their PhD but for salary/job purposes are designated as "Teaching Instructor." I guess you could mention PhD Candidate, but I think the content of the letter and your relationship with the LOR writer is more important than any title.

Thanks for the heads up. Yea my relationship with them is definitely close but I'm referring more to what we would put on the amcas application.

There is a field to mark the title of the LoR writer so that it gets printed on the paper we fax to the letter service.