{"id":5816,"date":"2019-01-24T09:29:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2019-01-24T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:09:42","slug":"do-you-have-any-suggestions-on-how-to-ask-a-professor-for-recommendation-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/24\/do-you-have-any-suggestions-on-how-to-ask-a-professor-for-recommendation-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have any suggestions on how to ask a professor for recommendation letter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5813\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw012419-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5813\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw012419-3-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"Do you have any suggestions on how to ask a professor for recommendation letter?\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw012419-3-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw012419-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you have any suggestions on how to ask a professor for recommendation letter?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Be polite when you ask. Give them plenty of time (at least a couple of weeks if at all possible). Write up a reminder for them of the work you&#8217;ve done together. Include the description of what the person or group is looking for in a candidate. Make it as easy as possible for them to do you the favor. (And don&#8217;t be totally surprised if they ask you to write a draft of the letter you want, that&#8217;s common).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be polite when you ask. Give them plenty of time (at least a couple of weeks if at all possible). Write up a reminder for them of the work you&#8217;ve done together. Include the description of what the person or group is looking for in a candidate. Make it as easy as possible for them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/24\/do-you-have-any-suggestions-on-how-to-ask-a-professor-for-recommendation-letter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you have any suggestions on how to ask a professor for recommendation letter?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}