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ENGLISH/HUMANITIES
Senior Letter of Recommendation
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Your letters of recommendation and carefully written essays are a vitally important aspect of the
college application process. Usually a letter of recommendation is required from an English teacher
and one other discipline.
In order to facilitate the writing of these recommendations, the English and Humanities teachers will
work together to balance the load of recommendations.
It is up to you to provide information so that we can represent your skills, accomplishments, and
character.
Specific details about papers you have written, research you have done, contributions you make in
the classroom, your innate curiosity, and your character can be integrated in a letter that represents
you.
We use your brag sheet to understand the scope of your accomplishments and activities, but
remember we are specifically writing about your abilities as a thinker, writer, and communicator
in English and the Humanities.
Remember your letter will depend on the specific information you give to us. Please give us at least
four weeks to complete your letter of recommendation
Please provide the information below and include it with your packet of materials to the
recommending teacher any other necessary materials.
Full Name:
Email Address:
Cumulative GPA:
SAT Scores:
1. Please provide the following information. Your supplementary paperwork should be securely
enclosed in a clearly labeled folder or packet. (see IMPORTANT INFORMATION)
 Your brag sheet (list awards, honors, activities, community service)
 Descriptions or summaries from important English or Humanities papers you have written.
Also, provide selected key quotes from these papers which effectively capture your
writing style, a significant insight or opinion, etc.
 Selections from any essays, papers, projects, or research that represent your writing or
thinking skills in other academic disciplines. Again provide selected key quotes from these
papers which effectively capture your writing style, a significant insight or opinion, etc..
2. Please provide the names of previous English or Humanities teachers.
 Freshman:
 Sophomore:
 Junior Literature or Junior Humanities:
3. Who else have you asked for a letter of recommendation?
4. What are FOUR words, in order of importance, that best describe you? Please briefly explain
why each word is appropriate.
5. Briefly describe your college/career plans and goals.
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6. Focus on a special experience that influenced you and helped you to know who or what you want
to be. You might want to discuss your participation in one or more of the following activities:
clubs, sports, performances, volunteer or retreat work, student government participation, music,
art, or science camp, leadership conference, or summer program. You may want to describe
something in particular and what you learned, or how you grew or plan to use this experience.
7. Humanities Students: Explain or describe in some detail a special project, paper, or presentation
you or wrote for Humanities.
8. Is there something special or unique about you that we should know? Are you primarily a
science person who also has a special fondness for the liberal arts? Are there any personal
circumstances (an illness, a death in the family, financial responsibilities, etc) that have had an
impact on you, or that may be of interest to an admissions committee?
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
1. On the outside of the envelope of materials, provide a clear list of the postmark deadline for
each school to which you are applying.
#2, 3, 4 only apply if there is a paper/physical recommendation form. The Common Application
is online so you do not need to print anything for schools requiring only the Common
Application.
2. In your packet of materials, include the Teacher Recommendation Form (if applicable), which
the teacher sends in with the letter or recommendation.
3. Do not forget to SIGN YOUR NAME on the top portion of the Teacher Evaluation Form (if
applicable).
4. Provide for the teacher: properly addressed self-adhesive LABELS to the admissions office
of the school in question. Teachers will affix the labels to a Salpointe envelope and send in the
letter with the completed Teacher Recommendation Form (if applicable).