Letters of recommendation are essential to the colleges, offering a third-party validation of a student’s skills, abilities, potential, core qualities, and interests.

Done. But then, you see something unexpected: Harvard Law requires two letters of recommendation and strongly recommends at least one of those come from an academic source. You begin to panic.

We also suggest obtaining recommendation letters from teachers or trusted mentors, not "my #4 side ho Derek" or Chief Keef, who submitted a picture of a dinosaur drawn in crayon on a rolling paper.

Senior Resident, Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts The importance of the letter of recommendation ...

Last week, I wrote a post on How to Ask for a Reference Letter which gave three steps for asking for (and getting!) a great letter of recommendation. The second, and arguably most important step ...

One of Shahidi’s mentors—and the author of one of her recommendation letters—was none other than Michelle Obama, Harvard alumna and the mother of incoming Harvard freshman Malia Obama, who ...