Gatsby PhD referee form
Please cut-and-paste this form into an email message and send to admissions@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk. The form is also available as plain text. For the applicant to receive full consideration, the reference must arrive on or before 21st December 2015.
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| In what capacity do you know the applicant? |
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| Written reference |
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Please provide a written letter of reference. We would appreciate it if you could:
- From your experience of other students you have supervised, assess the applicant's intellectual capability.
- Comment on the applicant's likely commitment to further postgraduate study, especially in the areas of computational neuroscience and machine learning.
- Comment on the applicant's personality, in particular his or her interaction with others.
A description of the Gatsby Unit PhD programme is available here. |
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| Ranking |
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Please compare the applicant's abilities in the following areas to the typical incoming PhD student in your department. If you use a different cohort for comparison, please let us know. Further comments would be very helpful as well. Please select a rating for each of the below.
1) Intellectual ability:
bottom 50% | top 50% | top 10% | top 5%
2) Written communication:
bottom 50% | top 50% | top 10% | top 5%
3) Verbal communication:
bottom 50% | top 50% | top 10% | top 5%
4) Ability to organise a workload:
bottom 50% | top 50% | top 10% | top 5%
5) Originality:
bottom 50% | top 50% | top 10% | top 5%
6) Overall assessment of the candidate:
bottom 50% | top 50% | top 10% | top 5%
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