I’ve been teaching high school for 22 years, and even though requests wax and wane throughout the years, I write, on average, about 15 recommendation letters per year. That’s 330 letters at about ...

A few years ago, I wrote “A Letter to College Students (From All Profs)” in which I provided advice to students about how to ask for letters of recommendation. Interestingly, just as students do not ...

Now that school's back in session, first-year college students are making the adjustment to campus life, which can be a big change from high school. And high school seniors who are applying to college ...

This time of year, faculty are often busy writing letters of recommendation for students applying to graduate school and responding to reference requests from potential employers. Considering the ...

The internship and grad program application season is underway! As a director of undergraduate studies in a college theater program, I’m asked to write a lot of letters of recommendation by a variety ...

Do you feel like you spend too much time working on your letters of recommendation? Do you want to know how to write letters that are really going to make a difference in your students' applications?