EEemily

Holy mackerel! I'm looking at the UCLA recent flood of results, mostly rejects. Haven't heard anything yet. AHHHH. Nerve-wracking!

Yes, I saw that too. Although, I haven't seen a cluster of accepts. I'm hoping those are the exceptional "must admit" students.

Anybody know anything about UCLA?

I have another professor who I worked as a grader for his class for two years. He is not in the Engineering Field though. He is in the Education Field, and teaches math reasoning courses to people who want to be grade school teachers. He would be able to testify to my work ethnic. Would that be better than a "did well in course" recommendation.

Yeah, I know they are pretty weak. I just don't know any other professors well. I think it's because I took two classes and worked with my 1st recommender, so I already limited my choices. =[ The MechE professor could spin that I took a bunch of MechE classes that wasn't required of me since I'm an EE . . . but I don't know if that will help. I do know this other person, he's the STEM coordinator at my hometown public school district. I went to an Engineering Camp he was a director of when I was a kid, then was a high school intern for him, and finally an assistant teacher for him the summer of my freshmen year of college. He knows me pretty well. But I'm unsure how useful his recommendation would be. It'd be great but I don't know the usefulness of a non-professor recommendation.

Hi! My name is Emily and I'm applying for my Master's in Electrical Engineering. So I'm running to pretty much the same dilemma that some previous posters have ran into: who to ask for my third recommendation. My first recommendation is from an EE Professor whom I've taken two classes with and researched for my Sophomore year. My second recommendation is from a CE professor that I worked for over the summer and am currently working for but have not taken any classes with. For my third option, it's really an open field: I have this young Professor who I did well in his Electronics class, and he greets me in the hallways. He's also helped me in the lab once for a different class. He's young and enthusiastic. I have this older Professor/chair of the undergraduate MechE department who I did well in his Mechanics of Materials class with him. And am now taking a second class, Thermodynamics, with him. He used to greet me in the hallways, but I have not seen him about in the hallways lately. And the current class I'm taking with him is much larger than the first class with him, so little interaction with him. Also, he is a mechanical engineering Professor, not electrical. For both cases, I received an A. The first case is an electrical engineering professor, while the second case is a mechanical engineering professor, which is not what I'm pursuing. But maybe he can add a unique spin because of that? My last choice if those two won't work is my writing professor. I took two writing classes with her and she knows me well enough. And I've written a recommendation for her to help her get promoted. However, her department is completely unrelated to Electrical Engineering. What do you guys think?