Hi everyone,
Quick question that I wanted your opinions on—I submitted all of my applications and my LOR writers have submitted their letters as well. My research interests are broadly on the effects of adverse experiences growing up on one’s behavior. That being said, I think one of my letter writers may have used childhood maltreatment as my research interest which fits under the adverse experiences category, but is more defined then adverse experiences. My other two letter writers have used adverse experiences and trauma as describing my interests which I asked them to do, however the third may have used child maltreatment. I don’t even know how much time he focused on my research interests in the letter vs my experiences, but I wanted to know how much you think this will hurt my application if he used too specific terminology when describing my interests, if that is not what I explicitly stated in my personal statement.
Thanks!