http://www.llm-guide.com/board/11486 en Reference letters - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:37:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/11486/last#11486 Ideally speaking... a professor's letter is valued more than an assistant professor's. but sometimes your course may be taught by an assistant professor and you are often applying for the same course. in that case, frankly speaking...I think you should take a reference letter from the Assistant Professor whose area of expertise is the same as the one to which you are applying to. In my case I took a letter from an assistant professor simply for the reason that he was teaching the same programme i was applying to and he could analyze my strengths in that particular discipline and strongly plead my case.