Although college requirements
vary with respect to teacher recommendations, we suggest that each
student should ask two academic teacher for a recommendation and one
counselor. Colleges strongly prefer or may even require recommendations
from teachers of courses taken in junior and senior years. Some colleges
require an English teacher’s recommendation. Because teacher
recommendations take a great deal of time to write, students should
not ask more than two academic teachers for a reference. An elective
teacher can be asked to write a third reference if it is desirable.
Some students request recommendations from coaches and employers.
Please check with your counselor for his/her opinion on the advisability
of extra inclusions. Most colleges consider more than four recommendations
to be excessive. Allow teachers at least two to four weeks to write
a recommendation. |
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| Letter of Recommendations/Transcripts
Requests Procedures |
| Transcripts |
Students are expected
to pick up a transcript request form for each College/Scholarship
from the Registrar’s Office located in room 152 of the Arts and
Humanities Building (main building).
- OR -
*New this Year* Families can fill out a transcript request form online through TCCi. <http://www.tcci.naviance.com/lexington>
This form should be filled out and returned to the Registrar’s
Office ASAP. Please pay close attention to deadlines that are posted.
Due to the enormous number of transcript requests only those transcript
requests turned in by the deadline can be guaranteed to be sent out
in time to make the college deadline. Lexington’s deadline is
usually three weeks before the college’s deadline. |
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| Registrar’s Responsibility |
| 1 |
Process transcript request |
| 2 |
Inform guidance counselor
that a student has requested a transcript for a college. |
| 3 |
Add school profile. |
| 4 |
Add counselor statement. |
| 5 |
Mail school packet to
college. |
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| Student’s Responsibility |
| 1 |
Fill out counselor questionnaire |
| 2 |
Fill out transcript request form
by the deadline. Note the Registrar’s deadline is much different
than the college deadline due to the sheer volume of transcript requests
that we process. CHECK the deadlines posted outside the Registrar’s
Office; it is usually a minimum of three weeks prior to the college
deadline |
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There is a $2.00 transcript request
fee for each transcript request. |
| 4 |
Include an envelope with address
and two stamps per envelope |
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| Guidance Counselor’s
Responsibility |
| 1 |
Write counselor statement in a timely
manner. |
| 2 |
Provide the Registrar with a copy. |
| 3 |
Provide Guidance secretary in their
respective location with a copy available for student/parent/guardian
to review. |
| 4 |
First responsibility is to those
students who follow the deadlines provided. |
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| Teacher Recommendations |
| Student’s Responsibility |
| 1 |
Provide teacher with a timely request
to write a letter of recommendation. (NOW is a good time to ask a
teacher if you have not done so already.) |
| 2 |
Provide the teacher with any and
all extra forms that are needed for the teacher to fill out. |
| 3 |
For each college, provide an addressed
envelope with correct postage (one stamp) unless you are also including
teacher evaluation forms from a college (then two stamps). |
| It is the student’s
responsibility to keep the teacher informed of relative deadlines
and to provide the teacher with enough notice of when recommendations
are needed. Teachers’ recommendations are between you and the
teachers. |
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Important!
Don’t forget to write a thank you note to each teacher for taking
the time to write your recommendation. |
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