Faculty and staff who know students in the applicant pool can put in a good word for those students by completing a Faculty/Staff Recommendation Form, which will go into the applicant’s file. The form is not meant for immediate family members, but for those with whom the applicant has had some other kind of direct relationship.
Undergraduate Admission formalized this process last year to make it more streamlined for those wanting to make a recommendation of potential students.
"Recommendations should be for someone for whom you can actually speak to their character,” said Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission. The form goes in the applicant’s file, and everything in the file receives at least three reviews by Admission.
The form can be completed electronically and submitted by email.
The Regular Decision application deadline is Jan. 1, 2017. Recommendations may be submitted throughout the admission process.