<p>Took a course in the Columbia Summer Program for HS Students over the summer. Although the program said that the classes will not graded, I was suprised to get 2 good evaluation/recommendation letters from the two instuctors who taught the class/lab which also included a final grade for the class/lab. I would like to use these letters as an additional recommendations to the colleges I am applying to (including Columbia University). Any suggestion on how to do this? Should I just make copies and attach them to the apps? Does Columbia have a record of this evulation? I am not sure if I can request Columbia to send them to other colleges. Any advice or info is appreciated.</p>
<p>A letter like that I would send through my guidance counselor. I had non-teacher letters similar to what you've mentioned (plus a resume, art supplement, various things) and I just had my guidance counselor put them with the all application materials she was sending to the school personally. (Everything else I did online.)</p>
<p>Not sure whether Columbia has any official record of those evaluations, but it doesn't matter--it's unlikely that undergraduate admissions would check summer program records against your letters in the ~20 minutes they take to read your application anyway. I'm sure if you yourself just send copies through your guidance counselor (marked with your Columbia ID), all will be fine.</p>
<p>Shodan -</p>
<p>I also went to the program and had a great rec I wanted to include, so I called the School for Continuing Education and they told me to make a copy of the letter and enclose it with my other recommendations.</p>
<p>yeah i did the summer program too and sent it in with my ED apps (btw im super nervous right now) through my counselor.
And in the app it says like "have you conferred with...@#%@&#%"
I wrote my summer instructor's name there too so that the adcom can get more information from the instructor if they wanted too =)</p>
<p>I was at the program as well and thats what I did. Were you guys residential students... none of you were in con law were you. That would be so wierd if you were people I knew.</p>
<p>I was in conlaw! And totally sent my recs from that class. They were outstanding.</p>
<p>i was in the columbia highschool program too, in chemistry! i was a residential student...also got a great letter of reccomendation!</p>
<p>Hope you all get accepted. BTY - did you send the letters to other Ivy League colleges? Wonder if it will have a negative impact!? Especially since I applied to another one and then decided to go to Columbia because they have a better program (though the other one seems more fun). I even send them an email telling them that I changed my mine and is going to the Columbia program instead.</p>
<p>Then again, maybe all students who take those summer classes get good evualations and grades. The letters and grades may be meaningless or useless. Afterall, we had to pay for those classes. Anyone out there did not receive a good evaulation from those instructors?</p>
<p>I think your suspicions are highly warrented.</p>
<p>That's certainly true, but you also pay for college classes. Was your recommendation written by a Columbia professor? Mine was written by a prof for the MFA program, and since I want to eventually pursue an MFA I think it's great. There were two other teachers for my class, both grad students, so I'm glad that the professor wrote mine.</p>
<p>my letter was written by the director of undergraduate chemistry studies, or it was at least signed by him. and it was definitely positive and sincere, im not applying this year, but would it help to attach it to my application next year (and i am thinking of applying early)?</p>