<p>I thought I posted yesterday - but I guess not. I need someone to get me unstuck with a letter of recommendation I’m writing. The girl is applying to one of the traditionally Black colleges. She’s had a rough life. She’s worked hard. I want to give her the best recommendation I can. But when I write, I find myself going on about all the tragedy in her life. She’s one of “my girls” - two sisters who lived down the street and had almost no parent involvement in their lives except for what little I could do as a friend. (no helicopter parent for them). I’m heading out to a school board meeting so if you’d like to help me out I may not be able to email or pm the letter to you until later tonight. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I would simply state her accomplishments and her qualifications. I would also probably just make some sort of statement as to how she has persevered through a great deal of adversity without going into too much detail.</p>
<p>I’d be happy to look over the letter. You basically just know her as a friend and neighbor?</p>
<p>mathmom, i’ll pm you the letter. it explains a bit more how I know her. She considers me her mom and I consider her and her sister as the daughters I never had. thanks.</p>
<p>oaklandmom, not sure if it helps but I recently wrote a rec letter for a friends daughter. I started out by describing watching her playing on the playground with my daughter as a four year old…talked about her kindness and gentle spirit. Then tied it into a longer message about what a pleasure it had been to watch her grow and that she still had that gentle spirit.
Would some kind of thing like that help?</p>