Summer programs that require a recommendation letter and not a form?

OHMomof2
Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:11:47 +0000

If the web site doesn’t make clear that a letter is OK, you can email generically…you don’t have to say who you are and you don’t have to say you plan to apply to 5 zillion programs. You can say your teacher wants to know if it’s OK to, or something.

Also, your teacher may be willing to do more than one if it’s mostly a copy/paste type thing. Or, your guidance counselor might be able to take the teacher letter and handle putting that on the various forms for you?

Also, not the end of the world that any program knows you are applying to a 1-2 others.

What I find challenging, for my D, is figuring out when to apply to the rolling admission ones so that she doesn’t have to accept or decline until the ones that notify in spring come in. That’s tricky, even though I think she is only applying to 3 of them. Good luck!