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LEARN HOW TO GET GREAT RECS
by the student editors of CHOOSE THE RIGHT COLLEGE & GET ACCEPTED!, a Students Helping Students® guide
Despite what you may think, you can have an impact on the quality of your recommendations. By choosing your references carefully and making sure that you give them enough time, you can maximize your chances of getting stellar recommendations. Here are some suggestions:
• Choose the right people. The person writing your letter of recommendation should know you well and should think positively of your academic performance and of you as a person. Teachers whose classes you’ve taken and who’ve witnessed your development are great resources, as well as guidance counselors who’ve seen you tackle challenges and grow as you overcame them. As you think about your choices, make sure that they’re diverse enough. It’s not a great idea to get two recommendations from two of your English teachers, for example.
“I had a recommender who had me in class for a couple of years. He knew me as a person as well as a student and could comment on my character as well as my academic abilities.”
Recent Grad,
Smith College
• Be courteous and professional. Schedule an appointment to make your request and tell your references how highly you value their opinion and how much you appreciate their effort. Be very clear about the deadline for sending in the recommendation and always, always leave ample time for your teacher to write it. Give your recommenders every piece of required information so that they don’t have to waste time hunting for it. This includes: at least two copies of the forms the recommender needs to fill out (one for a rough draft), stamped and addressed envelope to send the recommendation, your name, address, and social security number (you will usually fill these in on the recommendation form itself). Think about giving copies of your essays to the teachers and counselors writing your letters. They might find it helpful to have some additional information about you, some of which they might not have known before.
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