Letters of Recommendation Request - Authorization & Questionnaire

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For current and former UMTYMP students requesting Letters of Recommendation

Please answer the following questions and return them at least two weeks before the first letter is due.

If you’ve been in our courses for a few years we already know most of this information, and some of it—such as your instructors—is in our records, but it’s helpful to have everything together on this questionnaire. (The same is true for any information about your awards or activities that you’ve provided in a separate email, letter, or file.)

Email *

Please read and acknowledge this Authorization for Release: I hereby give permission to the School Of Mathematics Center for Educational Programs to release information regarding my participation in the University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program (UMTYMP) in response to my request or inquiries from colleges and universities. I understand that this information is confidential and I waive the right to view any recommendations that may be sent to these institutions. *

I have read and acknowledge this authorization for release, and waive the right to view my recommendation letters.

1a. What is your name? *

1b. Please enter your date of birth. *

YYYY

1c. What is your current home address? *

1d. What school do you attend? (Full Name please) *

1e. What is your current year of school? (9, 10, 11, 12) *

2. What is this letter of recommendation for? *

(College/university applications, a summer program, REU, etc.)

2a. When is this letter of recommendation DUE? (If you're requesting a letter for more than one school, college, university, etc., please list.) *

Example: UNM: 10/15, Vanderbilt: 10/15, Georgetown: 11/1, MIT: 11/1, UC Berkeley: 12/1, Rice: 1/1/2_, Georgia Tech: 1/2/2_, and Stanford: 1/2/2_

2b. HOW would you like us to send this letter of recommendation? *

*** Please Note *** As mentioned on the Letter of Recommendation website, we cannot provide letters of recommendation directly to school counselors. If your school uses Naviance, this often means you'll have to ask us to email the letter directly to the schools where you're applying; then they'll combine the letter with the rest of your application file.

Please send a written, printed copy to the snail mail address I provide via an email to MathCEP@umn.edu.

One or more of the schools uses their own system (e.g. MIT), and I will add Prof. Rogness' email (rogness@umn.edu) to their system as a recommender.

I will add Prof. Rogness' email (rogness@umn.edu) to my Common Application.

I will add Prof. Rogness' email (rogness@umn.edu) to my Coalition Application.

Please email a PDF of the letter directly to schools. I will provide a detailed list of schools and deadlines to mathcep@umn.edu, along with any required data and forms. (For example, many schools ask us to include your full name, date of birth, and common app ID number on your letter. There's also a common app teacher recommendation form you might want us to include.)

A combination of these methods; please check all that apply, and then use the "Other" field to explain.

Other:

Required

3. If you are an undergraduate, what is your major? If you are in high school, do you have an anticipated major? *

4. Please list the UMTYMP courses you took, along with the years and the instructors – both lecturers and workshop leaders.

Preferred list: - 20__-__, UMTYMP course, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

4a. First year in the program *

1. 20__-__, UMTYMP course, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

4b. Second year in the program *

2. 20__-__, UMTYMP course, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

4c. Third year in the program (if applicable)

3. 20__, UMTYMP course, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

4d. Fourth year in the program (if applicable)

4. 20__, UMTYMP course, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

4e. Fifth year in the program (if applicable)

5. 20__, UMTYMP course, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

4f. Sixth year in the program (if you also took AT)

6. 20__, UMTYMP course, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

5. What math courses have you taken since UMTYMP, if applicable?

6. If you left UMTYMP before finishing Calculus III or graduating from high school, why? (If not, please write N/A) *

(Scheduling conflicts, changing interests, etc.)

7. What are some of your academic accomplishments? *

8. What are some of your nonacademic accomplishments? *

9. How would you describe yourself? *

10. Is there anything we don’t know about you which we would find surprising? *

11. Are there any points you would particularly like us to emphasize in a letter? *

(Possible examples: you were chosen to speak at the UMTYMP graduation ceremony; you were a teaching assistant in some our K-12 enrichment programs; you earned an A in Calculus II despite having mono; you found the time to participate in UMTYMP despite lettering in fourteen sports, editing your school’s yearbook, and climbing Mount Everest.)

12. What makes you particularly qualified for this school/program/scholarship? *

13. What are your long-term goals and will this school/position/program/award help? How? *

14. What are your pronouns? *

They/them/theirs

She/her/hers

He/him/his

Other:

If applicable, what is your Common App ID (CAID)? If you are applying through Common App and do not have it currently, please email to mathcep@umn.edu at your convenience.

15. Any additional comments or things we should know about?

A copy of your responses will be emailed to the address you provided.

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