Please e-mail Dr. Gasper if you are interested in receiving a letter of recommendation. Due to the large class size and the fact that it impedes getting to know students very well, Dr. Gasper typically does NOT write letters for students whose sole contact stems from psy 217, unless she knows them very well from this course.
If Dr. Gasper agrees to write you a letter, please provide her with the following information.
· A copy of your Transcripts / Grades
· A vita /CV
· Your scores on the GRE/MCAT/LSAT/GMAT or whatever test you need to take in order to get into your grad school
· If you are applying for grad school, a copy of your personal statement.
· If you have lots of different application forms please try to do everything possible to make this task simple and easy for me. This includes:
- Fill out the part for the student
- In the reference part, please fill out my name, address, and contact information.
- I will supply the signature and do the ratings.
- On the envelopes, please stamp, address, and write in my return address on the top left.
My contact information:
Dr. Karen Gasper, Ph. D
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
437
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Email: kxg20@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-1713
Please
complete the following questionnaire.
Background
1. How long have I known you (years and months)?
2. In what capacity have I known you (student in class, advisee, independent study, research assistant, work study)?
3. What exactly are you applying for (e.g. grad school in clinical psychology, a job in marketing)? If you are applying to a variety of different programs, what SINGLE general term best captures this goal?
Course work
4. What class or classes have you taken with me? What were your grades? If you wrote a paper for me, what was it on, what grade did you get and was it a group paper or an individual paper? What part of the class you took with me relates most to the position for which you are applying?
5. What do you see as your strength in my class(es)? What makes you distinct from an average student? (E.g., participation, ability to work with fellow students, taking leadership roles in conducting studies, independent exploration of topics, performance on exams)
Research
6. How many projects did you work with me on? Were any of them your independent research (e.g., senior or honors thesis?)
7. What role did you play in the research (e.g., design, prepare stimulus materials, subject recruitment, experimenter, data coding, data entry)
8. What part of the research did you like the most?
9. What part relates to the position for which you are applying?
General
1. What do you see as your personal strengths (leadership, teaching, analytic skills, math skills, writing, speaking, etc.)?
2. What do you see as your personal weaknesses?
3. What outside classroom experience do you have that is relevant to your goal (e.g. volunteer for a help line, research at a hospital, working in a camp)?