Weird Email from JHU

[VFrank]

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Did anyone else get an E-mail today from Hopkins about LORs? I just got an E-mail saying my file is incomplete because I don't have LORs from my premed committee (which my school doesn't have) or from two senior faculty members from NU. But I sent in my letters on the 28th -- one from the Director of the Department of Biological Sciences at NU's grad school (who I took Biology from) and another from a head-honcho professor in the Chemistry department. Don't these sound like senior faculty members? How can I tell? Ahh! I hate complications.

 

[tedrik]

But I sent in my letters on the 28th

If you sent it August 28th, then they probably haven't processed them yet. I don't think there is a problem with your letter writers not being senior faculty, but you can always ask the school. I had the same thing happen with Cornell, they emailed me asking for letters even though I sent them almost 2 weeks before. Sometimes it just takes them a long time to do their paperwork.

good luck!

 

[CanIMakeIt]

yeah got the same letter......but my pre-med committee meets on 14th...and I told them so.....there is nothing much I can do about it

 

[Joplin3141]

How senior is senior do you think?

Do you think anyone that is an associate or full professor is fine?

My guess is that anyone above assistant professor is senior, but I would like some feedback.

 

[jtown]

How senior is senior do you think?

Do you think anyone that is an associate or full professor is fine?

My guess is that anyone above assistant professor is senior, but I would like some feedback.

i got this same email today.... i sent my letters in a long ass time ago...
what exactly defines "senior faculty"?

i also think it's sweet that their office has "call-in hours" to reduce the volume of calls. 6 hours a week? how about having a fuggin email contact to reduce call volume?!
monkeys.

 

[DrThom]

How senior is senior do you think?

Do you think anyone that is an associate or full professor is fine?

My guess is that anyone above assistant professor is senior, but I would like some feedback.

One of my LORs was from an associate professor and I have an interview there in 2 weeks.

 

[dmoney41]

My guess is that anyone above assistant professor is senior, but I would like some feedback.

I would imagine it means anyone with tenure, which should be functionally equivalent to associate professors and up. The criterion for who's a professor and who's an associate professor seem to be pretty arbitrary by school and department - I had a philosophy prof who got his PhD in '87 and was already full prof and department chair, while I had a couple bio profs who got their PhDs in the 1960s and were still associates.