TESU Psychology courses & grad school prospects.

[sanantone]

Letters of recommendation are the dumbest part of college admissions. Flipping a coin is more accurate than using recommendations for hiring and admissions decisions as evidenced by human resources research. I guess that doesn't help you since most graduate programs insist on using this invalid method of judging applicants.

You can do like me and find progressive programs that don't require letters of recommendation. University of Florida has several programs that won't even look at LORs. For my first master's program, I received LORs from community college instructors. I think I only took one online course with two of them. Just send them your resume, GPA, test scores, and career goals.

When I applied to the competitive PhD program I'm in now, I received an LOR from a professor I got to know pretty well. By accident, he emailed it to me. It was a total fluff piece, but I got in. Most LORs will be fluff pieces. No college graduate is dumb enough to get a bad LOR. If an instructor doesn't want to recommend you, then he or she will say so or come up with an excuse.