Letters of Recommendation for Transfer or Summer

Process for Letters of Recommendation for Summer Courses: 

1. Students should be highly knoledgable about the course they are applying to and what they course is looking for.  They then need write a document for the letter writer letting them know what types of information would be helpful to include.  This brag sheet is the one used for University Applications.  Students should ONLY answer the questions that they find helpful.  This can also be assistive in their application essays.  

2. Students need to request a recommendation from teachers in person.  That means that they should go ask the teacher if they would be willing, not just send them an email.   

3. Students asked to give their teachers at least 3 weeks to write their letters before the application deadline.  

4. Students also need to find out if the applications need a full letter of recommendation or an online form or process.  

Please note that letters of recommendation are never given to students or parents and must be sent directly to the receiving institution.  

Process for Letters of Recommendation for Students who are Applying to Transfer to a different Secondary School: 

1.  Contact the School Counselor who is currently supporting your student, and let them know you are starting an application process. 

2. Contact the School to which you/the student is applying to and ask what their process is for recommendations.  Most Schools have one of the following and each one will require a slightly different process.  Before you do any of these please make sure that you have contacted the TISA School Counselor as they will support and facilitate your process: 

   • A form that they want filled out by a person or a varity of people at TISA, which is then or are then emailed back to the receiving school or... 

A form that is requested from the School Counselor, or Administration, or a teacher that needs to be printed out and/or filled out will need to be managed by the School Counselor.  Your students Counselor will facilitate the filling out of the form, and send them back to the receiving institution. 

2. • In the application they will ask you to give them the email addresses of the people who will fill out the recommendation forms. 

For An electronic form sent directly to the teacher who is filling out the form, please make sure that the student or the parent has asked the teacher about this before the teachers email is submitted in the form.  This way the email should not be a surprise to the teacher.  Please also let  the School Counselor know that you are making the request so that we can support your processes.  

2. • Ask for a recommendation but do not specify what they are looking for and do not have a form of their own.   

If a receiving institution does not have it's own form then TISA will use the form that we use for our own admissions process.  This form is filled out in lieu of a letter and provides the details and information needed for an admissions process.  For this process please contact the your students School Counselor. 

3.  Let the School Counselor know when you would like to have this done by.  Please make sure that you are   making this request in a timely manner, giving teachers and the counselor a minimum of 15 work           days to get this done.