Recommendation Letters: Guidelines
if you would like me to write a letter of recommendation to support your applications, be aware that:
- I only write confidential letters.
- Except in specific cases I write the same letters for all your applications.
- For a given student, I only send letters for a limited number of applications (half a dozen or so is fine).
If this is fine to you:
1st step. Contact me and please provide:
- the complete list of applications for which you want a letter
- All your transcripts at Ecole Polytechnique
- A first-draft of your motivation letter (a.k.a. SoP)
- For each application:
- Exact name and website of the program
- Procedure for submitting the letter + deadline
- who else already agreed to write a letter
2d step.
- Once I have answered positively you can fill in my name in the application forms:
- Please fill in carefully the administrative information about me (everything is on my web page): name, address, phone.
- My position is "Assistant Professor". Depending on the case, the connection with you is "Instructor", "Supervisor for a (undergraduate) research project".
- A few days before the deadline feel free to send me a message if you have not received a notification from the corresponding university.