Letter of Rec from student? Forum

[ALgooner]

So I know this sounds dumb, but hear me out please! I am part of a student run microfinance nonprofit. The CEO is a student, and I am thinking about asking him to write me a letter of rec. I volunteer for this nonprofit around 10 hours a week, so it is a pretty significant investment of my time, and I wanted to reflect that in my application. It is listed in my resume and talked about in my PS, so I thought it might be good to continue the theme and have a letter of rec from my "boss" there.

Anyone have any advice on this?

[mmbt123]

personally i vote no. if you address it in your ps and resume, it should be sufficient and 10 hrs a week won't seem like such an investment when you're compared against students who work 24 hrs+.

also from what ive read, rec letters are used to evaluate your academic credentials so i don't knwo how this would help in that respect.

[The Duck]

So I know this sounds dumb, but hear me out please! I am part of a student run microfinance nonprofit. The CEO is a student, and I am thinking about asking him to write me a letter of rec. I volunteer for this nonprofit around 10 hours a week, so it is a pretty significant investment of my time, and I wanted to reflect that in my application. It is listed in my resume and talked about in my PS, so I thought it might be good to continue the theme and have a letter of rec from my "boss" there.

Anyone have any advice on this?

You don't have an academic advisor or anything?

[ALgooner]

personally i vote no. if you address it in your ps and resume, it should be sufficient and 10 hrs a week won't seem like such an investment when you're compared against students who work 24 hrs+.

also from what ive read, rec letters are used to evaluate your academic credentials so i don't knwo how this would help in that respect.

Thanks. I was more of thinking I could use it to corroborate what I claim in my resume and personal statement. And yea, I work around 20 hours a week, in addition to volunteering and taking a full load of classes. That's why I thought it was a pretty substantial amount of volunteer time.

[ALgooner]

So I know this sounds dumb, but hear me out please! I am part of a student run microfinance nonprofit. The CEO is a student, and I am thinking about asking him to write me a letter of rec. I volunteer for this nonprofit around 10 hours a week, so it is a pretty significant investment of my time, and I wanted to reflect that in my application. It is listed in my resume and talked about in my PS, so I thought it might be good to continue the theme and have a letter of rec from my "boss" there.

Anyone have any advice on this?

You don't have an academic advisor or anything?

We have a faculty sponsor, but I've never actually met him... so I'm not sure how valuable of a letter that would be.

Also, keep in mind that I already have 3 letters from a combo of professors/employers.