I plan to assemble
information that might be useful for Students of Georg
H. Hoffstaetter. This is clearly under development:
Letters of recommendation
If you have
asked for a letter of recommendation, and I have agreed to write one,
please do the following:
(1)
Try to convince your contacts to let me submit your letters
on-line.
(2) For those
institutions where I cannot submit on-line, please put an addressed
envelope and all required paperwork into my mailbox in the 1st floor
of Newman Lab. The envelope should be stamped and include my return
address as listed below.
(3)
Please include a transcript, an unofficial version is
sufficient. Annotate the transcript to indicate honors and graduate
classes, specify the median grades available at
http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Student/mediangradesA.html, comment
on particularly good or relevant grades, and explain particularly good
grades. Include courses taken this term for which grades have not yet
been given.
(4) Provide a
resume, listing major(s), minor(s), concentration(s), GPA, all
relevant research, work and other experience, and significant
extracurricular activities. For each listed research, work or
extracurricular activity, give start date and end date, and time
commitment per week averaged over that period. Please include full
contact information including cell phone number, in case I have
questions.
(5) Please
provide email and phone of your academic adviser and any research
supervisors.
(6) If you
have taken a course from me, contact your TA(s) and arrange for
him/her to email me comments on your performance in section and
lab.
full contact information including cell phone number, in case
I have questions.
(7)
Please provide a copy of your application letter or statement
of purpose for the program to which you are applying.
(8) Make sure you have filled out
all lines in the paperwork that I do not have to fill out myself. My
data for you to fill out is:
Name: Georg H Hoffstaetter
Title:
Associate Professor
Institution: Cornell University
Address:
Newman Lab, Ithaca 14853
email: gh77@cornell.edu
Telephone:
607-255-5197
(9) Please
put these thing in my mailbox simultaneously for all the institutions
you apply.
(10) Please
provide stamped mailing envelopes and include my return address as
listed above.
(11) Make
sure you do so significantly before the first deadline.
(12) While I will definitely not be
unfair in any letter of recommendation, I do want to write
confidential letters for all students, to put all students on equal
footing. Therefore please waive your right to examine my letter of
recommendation in cases where this right exists.
Send comments to
G. H. Hoffstaetter.
Last Update: January 29, 2007