Sample letter of recommendation for masters program

The three sample recommendation letters that follow, which you can download by clicking on the link below, are effective because they detail what makes the students stand out as exceptional and because they paint individual pictures of each student. Note how these excerpts, excerpted from each of the three letters, individualize and humanize the student:

“I have been especially impressed by Janet’s determination and sparkle.”

“I enthusiastically supported her application for the student position on the Mythic University Board of Trustees for the same reasons. She was the runner-up for that distinguished post, and Mythic University lost out on a true leader. But I believe her time is yet to come.”

“In short, John is both scholarly and culturally entrenched, ambitious but not pretentious, self-deprecating yet confident, forthright but unassuming, delightfully irreverent yet appropriately respectful—a complex and whole human being.”

In addition, the writers of these three letters take advantage of many of the rhetorical strategies discussed in Chapters 3 and 4 of this manual: enhancing their own credibility, narrative technique, anecdotal evidence, recommending by citing others, and using active verbs and transitions.

Finally, a late paragraph in the last letter, at the prompting of the graduate scholarship application, even provides a few criticisms of the student. Because these criticisms are offered even-handedly and efficiently, I would argue that the letter has even more ethos, and it is noteworthy that the student still landed the desired scholarship.

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Letter of Recommendation for MS: Studying abroad is a lengthy process and once you have finalized your universities, you need to arrange your documents in order. Among these documents SOP, LORs, and Resume are part of your application documents that will be sent to all the universities along with your application form. As you would know by now, LORs are crucial to your profile as it adds weightage to your application. Thus, you need to be clear and specific about what goes into your LOR.

Sample LOR for MS

The following is a sample letter of recommendation for MS. Instances and applications have been picked at random to create this sample. Shiksha.com strongly recommends against copying the content and suggests applicants use this article as a point of reference only.

LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

As the Head of the Aeronautical Department at XYZ College, New Delhi, I am delighted to write this letter of recommendation for Ms ABC, an undergraduate student of this department. I have known ABC for two years now, and hence I can confidently discuss her skills and qualities. She is a highly motivated and sincere student, who has actively capitalised on every opportunity our college had to offer.

ABC has consistently been amongst the top scorers of her batch, throughout the course of her degree, and was thus one of the few people to be offered the chance to pursue an Honours degree. This requires the completion of extra credits and a publication to receive the degree. She is currently working towards that in parallel with her normal courses. She was also chosen by the student council to teach first-year students, who needed tutoring when she was in her second year.

Additionally, ABC has also successfully represented our college in numerous Aircraft Design competitions, both nationally and internationally. Most recently, her team designed a UAV for ‘Crop Health Analysis’, and won the National Aviator Challenge, conducted by QPR University. Her design reports frequently have something different and innovative in them and solve a real-life problem. Besides this, she has also sparked the interest of many students in the field of Aerospace, by taking the initiative to organize technical workshops, competitions and talks. Her event, based on ‘Air Crash Investigations’, organised as a part of our annual technical fest, in 2019, proved to be a great success.

Furthermore, ABC was an approachable and effective president of our Aerospace Club from Apr 2018 to Mar 2019. In her term, the work of this club went on seamlessly. She not only mentored her juniors in a technical capacity but her complete dedication was undoubtedly laudable.

Overall, ABC has a very strong sense of community and teamwork, with an undeniable passion for the field of Aerospace. She has demonstrated great leadership skills and proved herself to be a valuable student of our department, time and again. I am positive that she will prove to be an asset to any college she is a part of, and complete the course with flying colours. Thus, I strongly recommend Ms ABC to your esteemed institution and wish her the best in the same.

Yours sincerely,

Full name of the Recommender

Designation, Department

Name of Institution, City

Contact No:

Email ID:

Also see: Shiksha Guidelines for LOR

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