Resumes & Recommendation Letters

Applying to College
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<p>This is a quote from <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/386669-asking-recommendations.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/386669-asking-recommendations.html&lt;/a>.

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Try to find ways to encourage them to tell stories about you and the things you've done in or out of the classroom. A teacher telling us a story about you is much more likely to have authenticity and more likely to share something that is actually reflective of your skills, strengths, and characteristics.

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<p>My question is: How can a student politely tell the teacher that he does not want the recommendation to be about his extracurricular activities? It's obviously awkward trying to suggest how a teacher should write a recommendation letter.</p>

<p>Getting a recommendation letter from another teacher isn't really an option - both teachers I have asked so far also asked for a resume to help them write the letters. I assume any other teachers will ask for the same thing.</p>

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<p>you should see them and first thank them for taking time out of their work to write your rec letters. then give them a couple of college essays you plan on submitting (or even drafts) then explain to them how you talk a lot about your extra currics in those essays. Just be like, “I’ve written so much about my extracurriculars that I feel colleges won’t really know how I do academically. It’s so great that I can rely on you as a teacher to tell the colleges how I do academically in a classroom.” something like that. </p>

<p>seeing that they’re teachers, i doubt they’ll talk about your extra currics… but you could just tell them that</p>

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<p>University of Phoenix doesn’t require essays, recommendations, SATs, or even Grades – a check will do nicely, thank you very much!!!</p>

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<p>I wasn’t asking for for-profit colleges that don’t require standardized testing or supplemental materials…</p>