Fillable Printable Sample Letter Of Recommendation For Graduate School

Sample Letter Of Recommendation For Graduate School

Leers of Recommendaon from your High School teachers/Counselors:

Depending upon your high school, if it is feasible, request leers of recommendaon from your

high school teachers before summer break. Colleges typically request that these be your Junior

or Senior year teachers in “core” subjects ie not art or woodshop etc. If this isn’t feasible, then

make these requests either before school starts or during the %rst few days of the Fall semester.

In your conversaon, ask “Would you be willing to write an excellent leer of recommendaon

for me?” Unless the answer is “yes”, move on. Keep in mind, that depending on the school,

there are teachers who severely limit the number of leers that they are willing to write each

year and/or will write for the %rst but %nite number of students to submit complete packets. At

a minimum, know what informaon is required to be submied to them prior to the

teachers/counselor wring these leers. It may be that a complete packet of informaon is

needed (samples of work, resume (not a sports resume), quesonnaire, brag sheet, etc)

including lists of/contacts and deadlines for all the schools you are applying to. They may

request addressed and stamped envelopes and copies of the required Leer of

Recommendaon form. It takes awhile to accumulate all of this informaon so allow su3cient

me. This is one of the few things that you can do over the summer months: do it! The

applicaon process itself may be stressful and overwhelming; ge7ng this out of the way is key

to ge7ng ahead of the applicaon game and reducing your anxiety during the school year.

Addionally, it is beer to be one of the %rst students returning packets as the counselors and

teachers are “fresh” and not pushing up against deadlines from all the other students. Make

sure you let the writers know what your deadlines are and if stamped envelopes are required,

provide them. Always write a prompt thank you note to anyone who has wrien a leer for

you. The college Admissions o3ce will typically ask you to list the providers of Leers of

Recommendaon and to provide their contact informaon/email addresses.