Questions about Recs and Parent Statement (Exeter)

classicalmama
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:16:54 +0000

Pick the person who is the best writer and who you think will put the most heart into the rec, not necessarily the person who you think would be most appropriate for Exeter or advises the most important extra curricular activity.

Our example–my kid needed a teacher rec for studying overseas this year. We initially went to his foreign language teacher. Fortunately all the recs. for this program are uploaded by the parent, not the teacher…because that recommendation–from a teacher who liked our kid very much and from whom he had always received A’s was blander than bland, and could literally have been written about nearly any other decent student in the class. He then went to his English teacher who wrote a beautiful recommendation that was about exactly the kinds of qualities a foreign exchange program would look for. Both teachers were equally fond of my kid…one was simply a MUCH better writer.