Jon Boeckendstedt, the associate vice president for enrollment management and marketing (we need a breath…that title is long!) at DePaul University in Chicago recently wrote a piece for “The Washington Post” about how letters of recommendation are a particularly unfair component of the college admissions process. His assertion largely centers …
Parents so often ask us which teachers their children should ask to write letters of recommendation on their behalf. It should be the teachers who they best feel can articulate what your child brings to the class. So often, students choose a math teacher because the student got the highest grade …
We came across a letter of recommendation that we figured we’d share with our readers. In this particular case, the letter of recommendation is for graduate school admission. Indeed the same principles that make for great letters of recommendation apply to both college admissions as well as graduate school admissions. …
