Hello,
Welcome to my letter of recommendation site. Please read the entire page before emailing me. I am always happy to write letters for students, but please make sure you follow the required steps to ensure that I write as good of a letter as I can and meet any required deadlines.
I require 2 weeks of advanced notice at a minimum (more time is better), not including breaks and holidays, to write letters of recommendation. If you are taking a gap year (or going to another program such as the Peace Corps) it is better to ask for a letter before you leave so that there isn’t a large gap between when you took my class and when I wrote your letter (I can always upload them when they are needed once I’ve written them)
Requirements/Steps
- Email me asking if I can write you a letter of recommendation.
- Email me your filled out FERPA release and fill out this form.
- If applying for an Economics PhD program, it is recommended that you take the following math courses: Calculus 1, 2, and 3, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra.
- A list of schools you are applying to with due dates.
- I will email you when I’ve completed your letter and submitted it to each school/job. If you don’t hear back from me within a week of your request (after I’ve told you the letter is ready), please email me to check on the status of the letter upload. I don’t want to miss any deadlines (sometimes messages are marked as spam).
- This is not a requirement, but I would really appreciate it if you would let me know the outcome of your application (you can send me an email with an update). Students often times ask me for advise about where to apply and having a list of outcomes (without student names obviously), is useful for when I try to tell students where to apply. Here’s a list of where recent students from the Economics Department have been accepted.