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Brag Sheet for Recommendation Letters | Student Guide

Fill-in student and parent brag sheets your recommender can use: throughline, activities, highlights, and context, ready to hand over.

Complete these two sheets, then hand them to the recommender. How to ask, and why a brag sheet helps, lives in teacher recommendation request template. This page is the fill-in packet, not that how-to.

Student brag sheet (fill this in)

  1. Throughline (1–2 sentences colleges should understand about you):
  2. Top activities (role, time, impact):
  3. Two or three highlights with specifics:
  4. One challenge and what changed:
  5. What you hope to study or explore:
  6. A time you changed your mind after feedback:
  7. How you contribute in groups, and what you do when something is hard:

Parent context sheet (optional, facts only)

  1. Family responsibilities or context the teacher may not see:
  2. Growth over time (one concrete change):

Before you send

  • Deadline list for each school:

Ask script: how to ask a teacher. For help on the full packet, work with an Ivy Ready expert.

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