Please read this page if you are in need of a letter of recommendation from me.

If you would like me to write a recommendation for you, please ask me if I am able to do it at least three weeks before your earliest deadline.

If I am able to write for you, then you must waive your right to read the letter. This is a condition that I impose on everyone and its really in your best interest since the reader of your letter won't take it seriously otherwise.

If I am able to write a letter for you, then the letter cannot be sent with the rest of your application (even if requested by the instructions of your application). I will send it directly to the intended recipient.

If I am able to write on your behalf, then please get the following to me (in hardcopy) at least two weeks before your earliest deadline:

  1. A list of all of the places you are applying to, with deadlines, in order of deadlines.
  2. A copy of your Allegheny College transcript.
  3. A copy of the statement of purpose from your application (if you are required to write one).
  4. A copy of your c.v., resume, or list of activities (if you have such a document).
  5. Any additionaly forms I am expected to fill out.
  6. Envelopes (obtained from the Mathematics Department secretary) with the Mathematics Department return address, appropriately addressed to the intended recipient. If the recommendation is to be submitted electronically, please provide explicit instructions about how this is to be achieved.
  7. Your responses to the following: