Alumni LORs Forum
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vale1rd
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Alumni LORs
I have a Harvard alumnus writing a letter of rec. However, he did not attend HLS (PhD in History) will it still have above average pull at HLS? I also have a professor (writing one) who used to teach Philosophy and Law at Northwestern (received his PhD from JHU unfortunately) will that letter have above average pull at NU?
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Knock
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Re: Alumni LORs
No and no.vale1rd wrote:I have a Harvard alumnus writing a letter of rec. However, he did not attend HLS (PhD in History) will it still have above average pull at HLS? I also have a professor (writing one) who used to teach Philosophy and Law at Northwestern (received his PhD from JHU unfortunately) will that letter have above average pull at NU?
Unless your LOR writer has a building named after him, or abbreviates his job title as POTUS, you're not going to have above average pull. What he writes is more important, imo.
