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Hello fellow programmers,

I'm a Danish college student, and about to apply to an American college for studying abroad at my 5'th semester.

In this process I need to write a letter of recommendation for my professors to sign, seeing as American english is not my mother tongue and I have no experience writing these sorts of recommendations. I was hoping a kind soul might help me out pointing minor, hopefully not any major, flaws, poor usage of sentences/words or if I should be more modest in my letter of recommendation.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
/Alexander

Recommendation:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

As a professor at Copenhagen Business school, CBS , I am honored to have had Alexander as a student in my courses, which includes; programming, development and design of IT systems. These courses are the technical part of the business administration and informationssystem studium, in which Alexander has made himself visible - in a positive way.

During the last three semesters I have become acquainted with Alexander, as a disciplined, dedicated and exemplary student. His skills in programming, technical propositions and understanding of IT architecture is, unquestionably, some of the finest I have yet seen. His remarkable imagination and rapid understanding of IT, enables him to create, invent and innovate, new as well as old, projects. I see him as a prodigy in the field of Information technology.

Our class holds well over a 100 students, with a wide array of interests and capabilities, with IT as one-fourth of the curriculum. Alexander has a positive attitude towards all assignments - including those which are not IT concerned - with learning being the main determinant and catalyst for his motivation. He has actively been seeking to encourage and assist the weaker students of the class as well as challenging the best intellectually and socially. I clearly recall many of my lectures, in which, he consistently, in an insisting manner, contributed his way of viewing things which let to a higher understanding of the curricula in the class. Furthermore, he explained the concept of Model-View-Controller - even as the concept wasn’t in the curriculum that semester - in an easy and understandable, yet challenging way, which led to several assignments projects written with this architectural model later that semester.

I sense that Alexander’s quick and sharp intellectual level, his creative imagination, enthusiasm and self-confidence, would enable him to flourish and prosper in any elite university, and yet, still challenge the classrooms he would participate in, but also be a great collaborator and facilitator for other students. Which is why, I believe, that he is one of the best suited candidates for any university he wishes to pursue.

Professor name

Professor and head of IT research department
Copenhagen Business School

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

As a professor at Copenhagen Business school, CBS, I am honored to have had Alexander as a student in my courses, which include programming and development and design of IT systems. These courses are the technical part of the business administration and informations system studium, in which Alexander has made himself visible - in a positive way.

During the last three semesters I have become acquainted with Alexander as a disciplined, dedicated, and exemplary student. His skills in programming, technical propositions, and understanding of IT architecture is, unquestionably, some of the finest I have yet seen. His remarkable imagination and rapid understanding of IT, enables him to create, invent, and innovate, new as well as old, projects. I see him as a prodigy in the field of Information Technology.

Our class holds well over a 100 students, with a wide array of interests and capabilities, with IT as one-fourth of the curriculum. Alexander has a positive attitude towards all assignments - including those which are not IT concerned - with learning being the main determinant and catalyst for his motivation. He has actively been seeking to encourage and assist the weaker students of the class as well as challenging the best intellectually and socially. I clearly recall many of my lectures, in which, he consistently, in an insisting manner, contributed his way of viewing things which let to a higher understanding of the curricula in the class. Furthermore, he explained the concept of Model-View-Controller - even as the concept wasn’t in the curriculum that semester - in an easy and understandable, yet challenging way, which led to several assignments projects written with this architectural model later that semester.

I sense that Alexander’s quick and sharp intellectual level, his creative imagination, enthusiasm, and self-confidence, would enable him to flourish and prosper in any elite university, and yet, still challenge the classrooms he would participate in, but also be a great collaborator and facilitator for other students. Which is why, I believe, that he is one of the best suited candidates for any university he wishes to pursue.

Professor name

Professor and head of IT research department
Copenhagen Business School

Just added some commas here and there. The letter was not bad at all, pretty well written. Best of luck in your applications!

I'd also reccomend that other members check the orthography corrections that I made, just to make sure that there were no errors on my part. The part that I made a different font, it seems to me that it is a run on sentance, if someone would also confirm or deny that.

A general suggestion I would have is to add something more personal to it- this is supposed to be written by the professor himself actually, but anyway. Just saying that someone is good does work, but showing why someone (you in this case) is good/worthy of an education is much more convincing.