DEADLINE: Completed application, transcripts, and evaluations must be received by March 1, 2004
TO APPLICANT: You must submit two evaluations completed by persons other than faculty members in the course to which you are applying. An additional evaluation may be submitted by a course faculty member
Name of applicant:______________________________________________________________________________________
has applied for admission to the MBL program titled Marine Models in Biological Research.
TO EVALUATOR: Please rank the applicant relative to the general population of peers. Please be frank. This course will only be of value to students with a serious commitment to science and with the ability to benefit from a very intense learning experience.
Percentile Ranking
| Top | Bottom | |||||||
| 1. Maturity | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
| 2. Creativity and imagination | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
| 3. Commitment to research | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
| 4. Curiosity | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
| 5. Intellectual ability | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
| 6. Initiative | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
| 7. Laboratory skills (including safety procedures) | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
| 8. Overall potential for success in scientific research | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 50 | <50 | ||
EVALUATOR: Please use a second page to comment on the suitability of this applicant for the program. Keep in mind that MBL programs are traditionally challenging and depend heavily on student initiative and cooperation with other students. Please comment on the student’s ability to interact cooperatively with others. Lectures and discussion groups in our program require excellent skills in the English language. If the applicant’s first language is not English, please discuss his/her ease with English in your statement. Thank you for your time and effort in evaluating this applicant.
Evaluator’s Name and Title:______________________________________________________________________
Institutional Address:___________________________________________________________________________
Date:________________ Evaluator’s Signature:______________________________________________________
If the applicant wishes to waive the right to examine this evaluation at a later date, please sign here:
Date: ________________ Applicant’s Signature: ______________________________________________________
Return to, Carole Browne, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, or e-mail as an attachment to, browne@wfu.edu.