This might seem like a dumb question, but considering that I have no idea what I am doing I figured I would ask.
I just reached out to a couple of professors that I had at Emerson College. I was enrolled in their Professional Studies program and graduated with a Digital Media Certificate this past April. One of my professors circled back and agreed to write me a letter of recommendation. In her email to me, she asked me the following:
"Would you prefer I write them to specific institutions and programs? Or do you need something more generic?"
The six schools that I plan on applying (USC, UCLA, ArtCenter, NYU, Columbia and Emerson). On some of their websites there was no mention of letters of recommendation being written out to a specific institution. But, remembering my past experiences applying to colleges for Undergrad, some of the letters of recommendation that I would ask from my teachers would be tailored to specific schools.
So my overall question to the forum is the following: Should I ask my professor to tailor her letter of recommendation for me to a specific school (I would hate to ask her to write six different letters to the six different schools that I am applying to), or should I just ask her to write me one generic letter?
Again, there might be an obvious answer to this question, but I figured I would ask.
Thank you.
I just reached out to a couple of professors that I had at Emerson College. I was enrolled in their Professional Studies program and graduated with a Digital Media Certificate this past April. One of my professors circled back and agreed to write me a letter of recommendation. In her email to me, she asked me the following:
"Would you prefer I write them to specific institutions and programs? Or do you need something more generic?"
The six schools that I plan on applying (USC, UCLA, ArtCenter, NYU, Columbia and Emerson). On some of their websites there was no mention of letters of recommendation being written out to a specific institution. But, remembering my past experiences applying to colleges for Undergrad, some of the letters of recommendation that I would ask from my teachers would be tailored to specific schools.
So my overall question to the forum is the following: Should I ask my professor to tailor her letter of recommendation for me to a specific school (I would hate to ask her to write six different letters to the six different schools that I am applying to), or should I just ask her to write me one generic letter?
Again, there might be an obvious answer to this question, but I figured I would ask.
Thank you.