Transfer LORs Forum

[lshopeful17]

Would appreciate any advice on when to ask for recs for transferring? Specifically, I want to ask my writing professor, but I have her this semester, as well as having had her last semester. Just feel weird asking her as my current prof for the recommendation, but I’ve had a lot of interaction with her.

Also, any advice for how to ask? My school
Is 100% zoom, so I can’t just drop by the professors offices. Is an initial email
Appropriate with an offer to have a meeting to discuss further?

[KPUSN07]

Would appreciate any advice on when to ask for recs for transferring? Specifically, I want to ask my writing professor, but I have her this semester, as well as having had her last semester. Just feel weird asking her as my current prof for the recommendation, but I’ve had a lot of interaction with her.

Also, any advice for how to ask? My school
Is 100% zoom, so I can’t just drop by the professors offices. Is an initial email
Appropriate with an offer to have a meeting to discuss further?

Recommend going to your 1st Semester professors - the classes you received the highest grades - top two; I think two should be sufficient... If you can weave in an employer or volunteer supervisor, that would be helpful too... Agree on the current semester, that could be tough.

I think the email with a phone call follow-up is appropriate; heck maybe just an initial phone call during office hours.

[lshopeful17]

Thanks for this, yeah it's tough because I had my writing professor in the fall too, and I got an A, so I'd like to use her. I have a doctrinal prof from the fall who I was closer with too. Unfortunately I did not get to know my other two profs well.

[KPUSN07]

Thanks for this, yeah it's tough because I had my writing professor in the fall too, and I got an A, so I'd like to use her. I have a doctrinal prof from the fall who I was closer with too. Unfortunately I did not get to know my other two profs well.

Use those two professors!

[lshopeful17]

I will, thanks! My only point was that I have the same professor for writing in the fall and spring semesters (my school requires legal writing throughout the whole year). So I need to ask her for a recommendation while I still have her, based on last semester's A. But we have a good relationship and I've met with her quite often, and it's a small class of 15 of us. Just feels awkward lol

[lstdnt]

I asked for a LOR from a professor I had both semesters. His class also covered two semesters. It wasn’t awkward at all! I think more people transfer than you think.