<p>My D was lucky in that she had applied for a program both sophomore and junior years that required LOR’s from two teachers. Since those weren’t top secret like college LOR’s, she got to see them (she had to submit them as part of her application package). That gave us a great opportunity to see how the teachers wrote and what they wrote about D. She actually did see one of her teacher’s LOR for college as he had her proof it to make sure it was accurate in terms of what he covered (it was an amazing letter - but we already suspected it would be since he had written a glowing one for the program requiring a LOR the year before). She also asked the other teacher who had provided a LOR for the program to write a college LOR too since we figured the letter would be similar to what she provided for the program. At the time she applied for the program requiring LOR’s, I hadn’t even thought about it being a great way to preview LOR’s, but that is how it worked out - so I would strongly recommend using that strategy if your kid is considering applying for anything that needs LOR’s as part of the application prior to senior year 
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<p>Lark</p>