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Posted: June 23 2010 at 12:08pm | IP Logged Quote Bridget

We are going to work on college application essays and asking for letters of recommendations this summer. I am not sure how to make the timing work out. Maybe someone who has done this can help me?

We wanted to ask for letters this summer because I think it will be much easier to get them when the people will be slightly less busy. But I don't know that our applications will be done by the end of summer. Do the colleges just start a file on someone as soon as they begin receiving stuff?

Or do we have the letters come to us then we send them in when we are ready with the applications.

Clear as mud?

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Posted: June 23 2010 at 12:59pm | IP Logged Quote guitarnan

The letters go to the schools directly, I think.

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Posted: June 23 2010 at 3:44pm | IP Logged Quote Bridget

Thanks Nancy! This is certainly a whole new area of homeschooling for me!

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Posted: July 06 2010 at 6:53pm | IP Logged Quote Chari

Do you know where he is applying?



He is NOT really a senior this year, is he???

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Posted: July 06 2010 at 7:14pm | IP Logged Quote Bridget

He will be this coming school year, yes! He wants a small liberal arts school. Christendom, TAC, Belmont...it mostly depends on who will help the most. His grades are pretty good in a rigourous classical curriculum, but we'll see when the SAT scores come back...

Chari, I've been meaning to tell you our good friend's daughter will be at TAC this fall. (She'll be the very bright, cute, petite blond.)

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Posted: July 06 2010 at 7:33pm | IP Logged Quote Angie Mc

How exciting, Bridget!

Do double-check and make sure that you need recommendations first. Devin didn't need them. What she did need to do was to fill out the application online which opened her file. From there she followed a checklist, and items were added to her open file, as they were received, until it was completed. There were online prompts letting here know the status of her application, yet she followed up via phone to ensure receipt of items. She started this process last August for early admissions in November - which she received and will start this August.

Praying for fabulous SAT scores    .

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Posted: July 06 2010 at 7:48pm | IP Logged Quote Bridget

I have learned that many schools have a form or cover letter that accompanies the letter of recommendation.

I have been gathering information, after we get through my husbands surgery and various other things in the next few weeks, then it is 'buckle down time' on college app. work. It's kind of a full time job by itself, at least for a time.

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