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<p>a tenured professor whom you have studied under for more than one year, who has supervised your own research project or employed you to participate in a research project with him or her. this tenured professor would also have big name recognition in your field and have personal and professional relationships with the professors at the schools to which you are applying. this tenured prof would also think the sun shines out of your rear end, preferably.</p>
<p>and can we like ilikedrit get his letter from a grad student, please? he seems pretty insistent on it, so let him go for it and see where it gets him.</p>