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Teachers, please give me your opinion on how I should ask my teacher to write me a letter of recommendation?

I want to ask my favorite teacher to write me a letter of recommendation for college. I was wondering if you teachers have a certain way you would like to be approached to do something like this...should I give my teacher certain information about the colleges I'm applying to, or what should I do? Do I just ask, "Can you please write a letter of recommendation for me?" and that's it??? I want to be as polite about it as possible because I know it is probably really time consuming for teachers...

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I just recently had the same experience for graduate school. Teachers consider it a compliment to be...

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How to ask a teacher to write me a college recommendation letter?

after i ask my teachers i have to put it in a letter to that teacher so they will not forget. the letter has to be short but official. how should i start the letter? how should i word it? please and thanks!!

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Mr/Mrs_________ , I am writing to you in hopes of receiving your written recommendation to a prospective...

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How to ask for a college letter of recommendation?

The culture at my high school is to ask for rec letters in late May and early June, but I don't know which teacher or how I should ask. I need two teacher recommendations and ...show more

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You can approach them directly but with manners.

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I disappointed a teacher who is writing my recommendation letter for college?

I'm a senior in high school with a 4.0 cumulative GPA and I applied to my dream college and its Honors Program. In order to have a complete application and be considered, I need a recommendation letter from a teacher. The recommendation letter has to...

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for starters just be a little more calm. this is your teacher we are talking about they have a lot of...

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How to ask for this letter of recommendation?

Help me ask a former professor for a letter of recommendation. Complicating details after the jump. Asking for a friend: I am a senior in college, currently beginning the process of applying to grad school. Last year, I took a couple of interdisciplinary...

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Here's what you say: "Thank you for being willing to talk to me. I hope your research is going...

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How do I apologize and ask for a letter recommendation?

I graduated last year in December. I'm looking for a teaching position but I need a letter of recommendation from my student teaching supervisor who I'm kind of scared to ask. I had two teachers when I did my student teaching and when I had to switch...

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OK, overall its a great letter but I think you should change a few things. I edited this a bit more...

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Whom should I ask for a letter of recommendation?

I'm a liberal arts major who wants to study Nutrition Science. I know that a letter of recommendation from a community college teacher generally doesn't carry as much weight as a letter from someone teaching at a university. Unfortunately, I have only...

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How many letters of recommendation do you need? You must submit the number that the application calls...

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Is it okay to ask for a letter of recommendation over email in this situation?

I'm applying for college right now, and one of the teachers (who I had in Honors Trig last year) I was about to ask for a letter of recommendation just went on an indefinite leave to be with a sick family member. I don't want to push off asking for a...

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Though there definitely could have been a better time to ask, I don't see anything too monumentally...

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Was it wrong of me to ask my professor for a letter of recommendation?

Here's my situation: I am a college student, considering transferring to a larger school. I intend on staying at my current college, but I figured I would apply to another school just for the heck of it. Why not? I am at the top of my class and am well...

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It should not. There are MANY reasons a person might transfer. Location, a specific program that applies...

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Was it wrong of me to ask my professor for a letter of recommendation?

Here's my situation: I am a college student, considering transferring to a larger school. I intend on staying at my current college, but I figured I would apply to another school just for the heck of it. Why not? I am at the top of my class and am well...

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not wrong at all, it is done every day.

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