Free letter of recommendation (lor) for student template
An academic letter of recommendation from a professor for a student applying to MS, MBA or PhD programs abroad, with how the recommender knows the student, ranking, specific examples and a clear endorsement.
What's in this template
Letter of recommendation
[Recommender full name]
[Designation, e.g. Associate Professor], Department of [Department]
[College or university name], [City]
[Official email] · [Phone]
Date: [DD Month YYYY]
To the Admissions Committee,
[Program name, e.g. MS in Data Science], [University name]
I am writing to recommend [Student full name] for admission to the [program] at [University]. I have known [Student first name] for [two years] as [his/her/their] teacher for [Course 1] and [Course 2], and as the supervisor of [his/her/their] final-year project at [College name].
Academic ability
[Student first name] stood out from the start. In [Course 1], a class of [120] students, [he/she/they] scored [94/100], the [second-highest] mark in the class. What impressed me more than the grade was [a specific example, e.g. a question in the second week about why gradient descent can stall, which showed a habit of asking how a method works, not just how to use it].
Research and project work
Under my supervision, [Student first name] [project description, e.g. built a model to predict crop yields from satellite images for 40 villages in our district]. [He/She/They] [what the student did independently, e.g. collected and labelled the data, tested three approaches and wrote most of the code]. The final model [result, e.g. predicted yields within 8% of actual harvests], and the work was [presented at a conference / published / used by a local organisation].
Personal qualities
[One or two specific examples of character, e.g. When a teammate fell ill before the project review, Student first name took on their part of the work without being asked and made sure the teammate was credited for what they had done.] [He/She/They] [is a clear communicator / takes feedback well / helps classmates], which I believe will make [him/her/them] a valued member of your cohort.
Overall assessment
Among the [N] students I have taught in [N] years, I would place [Student first name] in the top [5]% for [intellectual ability, research potential and motivation]. I recommend [him/her/them] [strongly / without reservation] for admission to your program.
Please contact me at [email] or [phone] if you need any further information.
Sincerely,
[Signature]
[Recommender full name]
[Designation], [Department]
[College or university name]
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