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Letters of Recommendation

Letters of Recommendation

International Academic Recommendation Letter (Europe & Beyond)

For professors, PIs, and supervisors writing in English for DAAD, Erasmus Mundus, and European master's applications - and for candidates drafting the letter their recommender asked for.

Academic reference letters in English for European and international programs and scholarships - DAAD, Erasmus Mundus consortia, and Dutch, German, and Nordic master's programs. Reviews the writer's vantage, incident evidence, comparisons and grades an outside reader can use, whose voice the letter speaks in, and a destination-specific endorsement; a named program's or scholarship's explicit instructions to referees supersede this cross-program rubric. Letters for US-bound applications belong to the Graduate School Recommendation Letter (MS/PhD) rubric instead.

5 scored dimensionsScore range: 05Word count: 150–700

Scoring Dimensions

1How You Know the Candidate
2Incidents, Not Adjectives
3A Yardstick That Travels
4Your Voice, Not the Candidate's
5A Committed Yes to This Program

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