Getting a recommendation letter

I only write recommendation letters for students that I know personally. I give my opinion frankly in recommendation letters, and therefore refuse to write recommendation letters for students who did not rank in the first half of the class. The only exception I do is for students who have a special curriculum which makes my course more challenging, because I then have a good story to tell in the letter.

Please email me with your request containing

• where you apply,
• a deadline,
• any information relevant to the application, e.g.,
  • what the university / employer seeks /values,
  • details about the curriculum you want to follow / position you want to obtain,
• my courses you followed and the grades you obtained (if any),
• your ranking at the KIRO (Ecole des Ponts’ hackathon),
• any other relevant information I should include.

If I was not your group teacher, then

• if your group teacher is a professor, ask him/her directly to write you a letter;
• if he/she is a PhD student, than send me the request above with your group teacher in CC.