<p>Hi everyone :P
I am Applying for Lville, Andover and Exceter. I want to know about the teacher recommendations, because I am not completely sure. First of all, I want to know if you can give teacher recs. from the year before, because I just started 8th grade two days ago and I don't feel like my teachers know me well enough to give recommendations yet. Secondly, I want to know when I give them in to all 3 schools (Interview, Tour, Admission test, etc.) and lastly I want to know if there are specific instructions for the letters. Thanks :) :) :)</p>
<p>Funny you should ask. We just went through this with Lville. Lville wants your current teachers for the basic English/Math recs, not last year’s. Remember that Lville’s deadline is not until January and that is also the case for Andover and PEA, I believe. My advice here is simply to have those rec letters written near, at or after the end of your fall term, after your teachers have been able to get to know you better. Lville allows additional rec letters from past teachers, friends of family, etc as auxiliary submissions. Your second and thirds Qs are a bit vague (to me anyway) but I would suggest that you ask your questions directly to the schools. If they want or recommend specific aspects for the letters to them, I would urge you to have your recommenders write individual letters to each school. School admissions staffers can instantly detect one size fits all letters. Letters crafted to the unique status of each school will have much more impact, IMO.</p>
<p>Hi Aro, since you’ve typed it this way a half-doz times in different posts & threads, I figured it’s not just an isolated typo. Thought u shd know there is no “c” in Exeter :)</p>
<p>I heard you might have to get a rec. from your principal, is that true?</p>
<p>For many schools, u need a rec from present math teacher & present English teacher. A 3rd rec is your choice.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your help GMT+7 :)</p>
<p>This is important about teacher recs as between Andover and Exeter. Although each school states that they will take copies of the same form made out for the other (so that your recommenders don’t have to fill out the same forms for multiple schools), Andover and Exeter are so competitive with each other that if you choose the Exeter form (the Exeter name, etc. is on top of it) and, along with submitting to Exeter, have your teachers also submit it to Andover (and the other schools), you will likely get rejected from Andover. And, vice versa. At the margin, where all decisions are made, if it is between you and the next guy, if his recommendations came in on the Andover form and yours came in to Andover on the Exeter form, you will get rejected. So, choose wisely which school you really want: they won’t admit it, but between them, which form you select tells them which school is your first choice.</p>
<p>Do you think that interviewers would prefer a candidate who only wanted their school or one who was keeping her options open?</p>
<p>Of course the school prefers to be loved back. All schools must manage their yield rate.</p>