Where are you applying? December 1 seems like a really early deadline. That said, you can ask your advisor/tutor/supervisor at least for a recommendation, and they'll probably give it based on any work you've done already.
You can't possibly ask your professors who you've barely gotten to know in a couple of months, and probably barely even submitted anything to get graded, to write you a letter of recommendation for those applications, right?I know people who have done that, and got in
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My real answer is that I have no idea, and that this is one of many reasons I did a 2-year MA, heh. I do know people who've done 1 year programs and gotten into solid PhD programs; my impression is that they go out of their way very early on to establish a rapport with their professors so that the profs are able to write at least somewhat informative LORs.
Also: I imagine there ought to be a graduate advisor or some such in your MA department who would have some good advice about this; you're surely not the first person to worry about how best to line up their MA with PhD applications.
You either take a gap year, or you get your undergraduate professors to write you a recommendation. And no, that doesn't look weird; it's expected. Those are the people who know you best, and can vouch for your performance as a student. In fact, even if you do decide to take a gap year (which is not a "year wasted." Any year of your life is not a waste, it's just a year out of grad school) you should still probably have one or two LoRs from undergraduate professors.
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Also: I imagine there ought to be a graduate advisor or some such in your MA department who would have some good advice about this; you're surely not the first person to worry about how best to line up their MA with PhD applications.
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