To whom it may concern
It
gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to recommend Yuju Lee for
University of California, Berkeley’s summer Statistics Program.
I have known him for over two years now and in this period I was
impressed by his marvelous growth and development which is not only
apparent in his academic and leadership achievements but in maturity
and his character as well.
Yuju
is a departmental of Scholars in Department of Statistics. He has
been actively participating in our Center for Environmental
Statistics at UCLA, since fall 2007. He has very strong quantitative
skills which sometimes leave many of his fellow students amazed and
often are a source of surprise for the academic staff. His mental
skills speak for themselves when he is participating in any academic
activity. Yuju entered in our academic program as all other students
do but soon he made himself stand out from others by demonstrating
his excellent quantitative and mental skills and above all a hunger
to learn more. This made him earn respect and understanding of his
fellow students and his teachers both. At some occasions he has
demonstrated a skill to solve problems with a new approach which is
unheard of by his fellow students. Where other students hear he
listens, where they practice he perfects and above all he takes
initiative where others are still in the process of deciding.
One
of the pre-requisites for enrollment as departmental of Scholars is
an overall GPA of 3.5. Yuju has a GPA higher than our requirement. He
masters many of the popular statistical software packages and many
times pointed out anomalies and limitations of software packages.
Corrections, suggestions and recommendations made by Yuju have
sometimes resulted in incorporation of these in later versions of
software packages.
After going through the details of your summer Statistics Program I
find it to be one of the most suitable ones from which Yuju can
benefit. Besides his strong quantitative skills, mentioned earlier,
he has demonstrated and achieved good results in Calculus. His GPA is
3.568. Not only will this program help Yuju in completing his
research paper he is working on but also he would certainly be most
benefited by this program in his years to come in professional and
practical life.
Besides
academics Yuju follows other interests as well. He has a passion for
music and computers. He is never at loss in making friends. It only
takes him a short while for him and he remains no stranger in any
type of social and academic gatherings. He makes friends and is
befriended easily. In academic discussions he has this distinctive
quality of proving his point without airing any opposition. He also
has a quality of discussing any matter academically, without
prejudice and pride.
Yuju
Lee is an extraordinary young man. As his adviser in Applied
Mathematics and Statistics I have witnessed many examples of his
talents and have been more than impressed by his diligence and work
ethics. He has outstanding organizational skills. He has the ability
to work on several diversified tasks simultaneously and has never
disappointed anyone, as far as I know, in delivering the results in
specified time despite deadline and pressures. Besides his research
work that he is doing under my supervision he is also planning to
write a book on Statistical Analysis. I have reviewed parts of his
scribbled notes and I am impressed. He has also headed groups of
students in various projects. His presentation skills are marvelous
and the audience is more than willing to hear what he has to say or
demonstrate. He is a source of encouragement for other students and
many of them have improved their grades by following his example. For
the time he has been with me he has always been one of the top three
students in his class. His above average performance is a direct
result of his dedication and hard work alone.
If
your summer Environmental Statistics program is looking for
exceptionally good candidates with excellent record then Yuju Lee is
the right choice. He has consistently shown the ability to meet
challenges which come his way.
To
conclude, I would like to strongly recommend Yuju Lee for you summer
Environmental Statistics program. If you have any further queries
regarding Yuju’s abilities, please do not hesitate to contact
me.
Sincerely,
Jan de Leeuw
Chair
Department of Statistics
Center for
Environmental Statistics
UCLA
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