CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Letter of Recommendation Form

TO APPLICANT: Please complete the top section of this form and give a copy to each of the persons listed as references on your application form.

Semester of Application: / Fall / Spring / 20____
Name of applicant:

Last First Middle

APPLICANT’S WAIVER OF ACCESS

(The following waiver of access to your files is optional. If signed below, you certify to the evaluator and the University that this evaluation will be confidential.)

I hereby waive rights to see or inspect any statement sent to California State University, Fullerton, as a result of this request. (Valid only if signed.)

Date: / Applicant’s signature:

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TO EVALUATOR: We would appreciate your opinion of the person named above who is applying for admission to our Master’s Degree program. Please write your comments on the other side of this sheet or attach a separate letter. Your comments would be most helpful if they addressed the following:

1.  What are your personal impressions of the applicant’s intellectual capacity, ability in research, professional skills, promise of productive scholarship, quality of previous work, character and personality?

2.  Many of our MS students work as teaching associates or graduate assistants (lab preparators or graders). Based on your interactions with the applicant as an employer or supervisor, how effective do you believe he or she would be in such a role? What particular traits, skills or experiences of the applicant makes him/her qualified for these positions? (If your interaction with the applicant has been solely in the classroom, please indicate this in your comments).

Do not return the completed form to the applicant, but mail it directly to:

Graduate Program Adviser

Department of Biological Science

California State University

P.O. Box 6850

Fullerton, CA 92834-6850. Please return this form as soon as possible.

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