Hi I’m an international applicant who is rushing for the RDs… Basically, in my country, colleges just require one recommendation letter. Like the last one in the recommender’s page if you have seen it. I’m the first one that goes to US in my family and also in my school so no one knows well about it. There’s three questions in the recommender’s page.
- How long have you known this student and in what context?
- What are the first words that come to your mind to describe this student?
- List the courses in which you have taught this student, including the level of course difficulty (AP, IB, accelerated, honors, elective; 100-level, 200-level; etc.).
- Please upload a document describing what you think is important about this student, including a description of academic and personal characteristics, as demonstrated in your classroom. We welcome information that will help us to differentiate this student
So the teachers I asked to write me a recommendation letter just wrote me the last one, the typical recommendation of my country. Since all 3 questions left are limited to 1000 words, do the teachers write them long generally? Especially the third one… it’s just the courses how can it be about 1000 words… ( I dropped out of school at the end of 10th grade and took the GED ) I’m applying to selective schools so I think that recommendations are important but I don’t know about the general length that teachers write, so if anyone knows about it or can tell about how long your recommendation was, please help me. I already wrote all the essays but the recommendations are killing me…