	Recommendation letter form

To The Applicant

1. The applicant must submit this recommendation letter form to a professor or someone with equivalent qualification who is recognized by this institute. Please ask a recommender who has observed your scholastic attitude and behavior for over 1 year. The recommender must be someone willing to cooperate when verification of letter of recommendation’s content becomes necessary.

One of the recommendation letters should be written by professor of applicant’s affiliated college.

The person qualified as the recommender who is recognized by this institute must fulfill all of the following requirements.

(1) The recommender has closely observed applicant’s scholastic attitude and behavior for over 1 year.

(2) The recommender has knowledge of applicant’s character, intellectual / academic potential and lacking attributes.

(3) The recommender is not part of the applicant’s family member or share common interest.

* Recommendation letters written by current or former faculty member of Seoul National University College of Medicine, the applicant him/herself, the applicant’s family member or relatives, the applicant’s friends is not accepted.

2. The applicant must complete the applicant’s information form on the first page and check the box below. Then submit it to the recommender with the guideline for recommender and recommendation content.

3. After completing this form, please submit it via BOTH mail and email (snumed1@snu.ac.kr) during the following period: October 2 (Fri), 2015 ~ October 6 (Tue), 2015.

Email submission without a corresponding hardcopy submission will not be acknowledged.

This amounts to an incomplete submission of the required documents for application.

4. The recommendation letter should be sealed in a signed envelope. The letter can be sent to by either way; directly sent from the recommender via registered or express mail or from the applicant.

Recommendation letters should arrive at the Seoul National University College of Medicine, admission committee by on October 6th, 2015.

(Recommendation letters with postal date stamp for October 6, 2015 will be accepted.)

I have read the instructions.

To The Recommender

1. The recommender has observed the applicant for over 1 year, must be someone willing to cooperate when verification of letter of recommendation’s content becomes necessary.

2. Letters from the following recommenders will not be accepted; current or former faculty member of Seoul National University College of Medicine, the applicant him/herself, the applicant's family member or relatives.

3. Complete the Information sections for both the Applicant and the Recommender. Please be sure to sign at the end of the Recommender’s Information section.

4. Make sure that the applicant or others do not see the letter of recommendation.

5. This recommendation letter is an important part of the applicant’s information and it will be used to evaluate the applicant. Please thoroughly examine the contents and include accurate and objective opinion about the applicant regarding the following qualities.

• Academic Capability: academic achievement and attitude, research capacity, intellectual potential, etc.

• Character Maturity: morality, honesty, responsibility, diligence, service mentality, etc.

• Personal Relationship: leadership, sociability, cooperation, consideration, etc.

• Lacking attributes of the Applicant that needs improvements.

• Other information that could be used as helpful to evaluate the applicant.

6. This letter of recommendation can be completed as using a word processor, but, if necessary, please write with using blue or black pen (not pencil).

7. To maintain impartiality and objectivity, the letter of recommendation will be evaluated under the anonymity of the applicant. Please do not include information that can be used to identify the applicant. (e.g. applicant’s name)

8. After completing this form, please submit it via BOTH mail and email (snumed1@snu.ac.kr) during the following period: October 2 (Fri), 2015 ~ October 6 (Tue), 2015.

Email submission without a corresponding hardcopy submission will not be acknowledged.

This amounts to an incomplete submission of the required documents for application.

9. The recommendation letter should be sealed in a signed envelope. The letter can be sent to by either way; directly sent from the recommender via registered or express mail or from the applicant.

Recommendation letters should arrive at the Seoul National University College of Medicine, admission committee by on October 6th, 2015.

(Recommendation letters with postal date stamp for October 6, 2015 will be accepted.)

10. Once completing the form, please double check any missing pages (total 4 page) and then staple all the completed pages together in the top left hand corner.

※ Seoul National University considers your letter of recommendation as an important aspect in selecting students for admission. This recommendation letter will be used before and after student’s admission and will be kept confidential.

I have read the instructions.

	Recommendation letter

Applicant’s Information(To be completed by the applicant)

Applicant Name :		Date of brith :		Gender :	M ( ) F ( )
College Attended/ Major/ Graduation Date :

Recommender’s Information

Name :			Mobile :				Phone :
Affiliated Institution :				Period affiliated with the institution :		Years
Position :			E-mail :				Fax :

Please specify your relationship with the applicant and how long you have known him/her.

How long have you known the applicant?	years months (mm/yyyy, / ~ / )
Relationship with the applicant :

1. I have personally completed this recommendation letter based on facts.

2. I confirm that I am not a current or former faculty member of Seoul National University College of Medicine, the applicant him/herself, the applicant’s family member or relatives, the applicant’s friend.

3. I have not shown and will not show any part of this recommendation letter to anyone else as well as to the applicant.

4. I will cooperate with SNU if asked for verification regarding the recommendation letter.

5. If it is found out that I intentionally provided false information or had someone else write the letter, I will be disqualified from writing a recommendation letter to SNU in the future.

I hereby agree to the statements above.

Date :  (DD)           (MM)          (YYYY)

Recommender's Name :                   Signature

▶ Please evaluate the applicant regarding the following qualities in comparison with his/her peer group:

	Highly distinct (top 1%)	Very excellent (top 5%)	Excellent (top 15%)	Good (top 30%)	Average	Below average	Unable to evaluate
Academic capability
Character maturity
Personal relationship
Creativity thinking

▸ Please describe any aspects of the   applicant’s academic capability (e.g. academic achievement and attitude, research capacity, intellectual potential, etc.) or personality (e.g. morality, honesty, responsibility, diligence, service mentality, leadership, sociability, cooperation, consideration, etc.) that the evaluators should consider. If there are attributes or skills that   the applicant lacks or needs improvements, other information that may help   the applicant’s evaluation, please provide us with additional comments. (You may attach additional sheets, if necessary.)