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Transfer LORs
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:11 am
by 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?
Re: Transfer LORs
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:19 pm
by KPUSN07
lshopeful17 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:11 am
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.
Re: Transfer LORs
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:18 pm
by 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.
Re: Transfer LORs
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:23 pm
by KPUSN07
lshopeful17 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:18 pm
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!
Re: Transfer LORs
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:46 pm
by 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
Re: Transfer LORs
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:55 am
by 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.