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Jeff Erickson
CS Professor, UIUC

My father is my university professor. Is that a good idea for me to ask him to write me a letter of recommendation for my master's degree, or would that not work in my favour?
[A2A]

No. No, no, no. Absolutely not. Do not, under any circumstances, ask your father to write you a recommendation letter for graduate school.

If your father wrote the letter and revealed your relationship, the letter would be thrown out immediately, because of the obvious and unavoidable conflict of interest. Graduate applications typically require a certain number of recommendation letters; tossing your dad’s letter might put you below that threshold, which means you effectively never applied at all. That’s the best case scenario. More likely, the admissions committee would still review your application, but would write you off as either unethical, deeply uninformed, or simply not accomplished enough to get three letters without conflicts.

If your father wrote the letter without revealing your relationship, and the relationship was later discovered, there’s a good chance that your admission would be revoked for fraud. Both your father and their department chair/dean would likely get an angry phone call from the department chair of the master’s program. Other recommendation letters from your father, and other applications from his/your university, would all be called into question.

If your father has any sense, he’d answer your request with “What?! What are you thinking? Of course not!” Better not to put in him in that uncomfortable position in the first place.

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不成想，这一发声却把饶毅和他女儿饶婕推上了舆论的风口浪尖。网友很快扒出饶婕高三的时候就能进美国大学的实验室做生物学实验，并挂名发表了六篇顶级论文的往事，质疑饶婕是靠虚假挂名刷简历拿到耶鲁大学的入学资格。

　　据公开信息显示，饶毅的女儿伊丽莎白-饶婕(Elizabeth Jie Rao)2009年从美国芝加哥的林肯公园高中申请得到耶鲁大学录取，而饶婕的母亲简-吴瑛(Jane Ying Wu)此前还在美国西北大学医学院的神经学讲席教授(后被聘为中科院生物物理所创新课题组组长)。从西北大学官网可以查询到，饶婕与母亲吴瑛合著的5篇论文，论文信息显示，饶婕几乎参与了从实验设计到论文撰写的全过程。

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饶毅[和他女儿饶婕的故事]的确是

拚爹的模范了。

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拼妈

饶毅[和他女儿饶婕的故事]的确是

拚爹的模范了。

[53general]

推荐信当然不行，但是娃到爹妈的实验室做volunteer or intern，然后paper挂名，都是常规操作。

[lsheng]

不合适。但完全可以你给同事的孩子写，然后同事给你孩子写。

[傅红雪]

都是和其他学校朋友/合作者换着带娃paper的
我老板是个院士，他就和他的院士发小易子summer intern，都不吃亏。

[noles]

那肯定不合适。前年这里的公高有一对双胞胎， 印裔。她们的爸爸是我们学校的Bio Medical的教授，姐妹俩Bio medical research搞得特火，毕业时又是第一，第二。一个去了哈佛，一个去了普林。学校当然知道她们是靠爸爸。但是她们的确比那些没有搞过研究的要强。即使有水分，也比全水强。