Reculant profs and recs

Transfer Students
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<p>Okay... I talked to my favorite professor about transferring and asked him to write a rec for me since I have confidence in him. </p>

<p>Ouch, I thought after I left the room. He did not hear me say Cornell, only Colgate and seemed hard pressed about small campuses. Said that he would write a good recommendation letter.</p>

<p>I do not think I've convinced him enough so I am writing a letter since I argue better that way.</p>

<p>But I have heard from other people at my college that professors are the hardest people to talk to about transferring. I definitely know that my other favorite prof will not write one sincerely since she is an alum of the college. But the other two, I did okay with them but just do not know me as well as the other two. </p>

<p>My question is... how do you deal with professors when it comes to asking for a faculty report for transferring, particularly the ones who want you to stay or at least have you go to a similar campus? </p>

<p>I am having second thoughts about this guy, really. It was so hard for me to talk to him because I like him so much... but can I really trust him to be sincere in his letter? I know that he has already written a reference letter for my summer internship and I am positive that it's a kick-ass one.</p>

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<p>try to avoid profs that you are unsure they will deliver 100% in their rec. but if it comes down to them, just ask them sincerely- 100% honesty.</p>

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<p>Is reculant a word?</p>

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<p>........no</p>

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<p>reluctant.</p>

<p>reluctant.</p>

<p>reluctant.</p>

<p>Bad spelling, my bad.</p>

<p>Not exactly... but he certainly doesn't want me to go! But he says if I'm confident that I'll be happier there, then he will try to support me.</p>

<p>Then he goes into a rant on campus sizes. Obviously he did not hear me say that Cornell is one of my choices and we only talked about this other small LAC.</p>

<p>Oops. Definitely not the guy to ask for a Cornell ref no matter how much I like him. This is going to be tough to get at least one or two prof references for Cornell around here- profs here really advocate for small campuses. Already got one from my admissions reader (we're good friends now). But I'm going to hold off this transfer-to-Cornell talk for a couple of weeks until I've talked to more people. The other school's a-go. Dammit, seeing that that prof face-to-face made this process much harder! I can leave everything here but not him. ARGH!</p>