SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATION PROCESS
Obtaining a recommendation for your application to one or more colleges involves several steps and usually takes several months. Managing the process efficiently provides the only means for minimizing the time and effort required to carry out the process successfully. To that end, this short summary of the process that you and I will utilize is intended to delineate your tasks and responsibilities.
1. The student requests a recommendation.
1a. The teacher provides the student with:
1. a
Checklist of
Instructions (you will obtain this shortly)
2. a
Recommendation
Data Form (you will obtain this shortly)
1b. The student fills out the Recommendation Data Form
and returns it to the
teacher as soon as
possible.
1c. Early action:
Follow Checklist of
Instructions for Early Action
2. The student receives applications from his or her selected
colleges.
Weeks or months may elapse as the student receives application
forms from the colleges
to which he or she has applied. As they arrive the student
prepares the recommendation
forms that come with the applications (as described in the Instruction
Checklist).
3. The student submits all the recommendation forms in a manila
envelope.
A large manila envelope containing the recommendation forms
is submitted to the teacher
when all the recommendation forms have been received and prepared
(see Checklist of
Instructions). If you haven't received all of your college
applications by the time your earliest
deadline is three weeks away, submit your
manila envelope. You will submit a second envelope
after you have received the applications that haven't yet arrived.
4. The teacher mails the recommendations.
The teacher completes the prepared the recommendation forms by
appending copies of the
recommendation that he or she has written. Finally, the
recommendations are mailed.