Yet another LOR question
I've exhausted my professorial options for LORs. I still need one more, and I'm trying to decide between my former employer and my former coworker. I would think that my former employer would be better qualified to write the letter, but he wrote me a letter for a different program, and it was pretty bad. He didn't say bad things about me, but clearly didn't listen to me when I told him what it was about, because he phrased the whole thing like I was applying for a job. ("I highly recommend you choose NB for your open position.") I very clearly explained to him what it was I was applying for, and even sent him the program's website, so I don't know that I could do anything differently to get him to write a more appropriate letter. My other choice is my former coworker. She knows me well and wrote me a lovely letter for that other program. However, the program I'm applying to now says no friends or family, and I don't know if she counts as a friend? So which is the better choice? A well qualified person who I don't trust to write a good letter, or a less qualified person who I know will write a good letter? ack.
ETA: Since it's probably relevant, I've been done with school for 2 years. I'm applying for Fall 08 admissions because the M.Ed deadline at UMass was extended to June 1. It's not a highly competitive program (naturally, or the deadline wouldn't have been extended so ridiculously late), but I do still want to submit the best application possible.
ETA: Since it's probably relevant, I've been done with school for 2 years. I'm applying for Fall 08 admissions because the M.Ed deadline at UMass was extended to June 1. It's not a highly competitive program (naturally, or the deadline wouldn't have been extended so ridiculously late), but I do still want to submit the best application possible.