Check your college’s website to determine if and how many teacher letters of recommendation are required
Ask your teacher in person if they are willing to write you a letter. If yes…
Click on the following buttons to request the letter of rec on Maia.
1) Universities
2) Recommendations
3) Select the teacher who has agreed to write your letter
4) You can upload the ‘Brag Sheet/teacher letter of recommendation form’ and/or resume
5) SAVE!
You will add the deadline for the recommendation - please note that you need to use the college’s admission deadline NOT your preferred deadline.
Students are unable to view teacher’s letters of recommendation, as you are waiving your right to do so!
Check your college’s website to determine if they require a counselor letter of recommendation.
Complete the Counselor Letter of Rec Form on Maia Learning
On your Dashboard, click “surveys”
Click “start” on the right side of the screen where is says “Counselor Letter of Recommendation”
Don’t forget to click “finalize and submit”
Counselors CAN NOT submit this for you
This must be requested on your college application
On the Common App it can be found under “other recommenders”
If you have test scores, you must send them directly from ACT (actstudent.org) and/or SAT (collegeboard.org). See the checklist on EACH of the college’s websites to see what scores are required, if any, and how they should be sent.
Test Optional/Blind Colleges? www.fairtest.org
SAT sign up www.collegeboard.org
ACT sign up www.actstudent.org
Some schools require a Mid-Year Report, which is available after your 1st semester grades have been posted to your transcript the second week of January. Colleges may email you or request a Mid-Year report via your student portal account with them. Make sure you are checking your student portal account on a regular basis. You will need to submit a request for these records to be sent by completing the Mid-Year Report Request. (Mid-year Report- link will be available Spring 2026)