LOR Brag Sheet

[Anonymous]

What is your child giving to teachers for letters of recommendation? How involved are you in helping finesse the brag sheet? Curating snapshots/tidbits about how impactful the class was on child high school experience etc? Future aspirations etc.

I feel like I could significantly improve upon what DC is planning to send to teachers, and I’m not sure how involved I should be?

Any experienced parents here? Is there an example or 2 of good ones?

[Anonymous]

Let go.

[Anonymous]

Give kid comments

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your child giving to teachers for letters of recommendation? How involved are you in helping finesse the brag sheet? Curating snapshots/tidbits about how impactful the class was on child high school experience etc? Future aspirations etc.

I feel like I could significantly improve upon what DC is planning to send to teachers, and I’m not sure how involved I should be?

Any experienced parents here? Is there an example or 2 of good ones?

You should absolutely 'spruce it up'! The teachers use that bragsheet to write the recommendation letters.

[Anonymous]

I never saw my son's brag sheets. I'm sure they were bare bones, but he had a good rapport with the teachers who provided recs and had them both for multiple years.

It was bad enough I had to write one of these for the guidance counselor.

[Anonymous]

We have been told that both student and parent brag sheets should be written in such a way that counselors and/or teachers could simply copy and paste sentences or paragraphs into the actual recommendation.

Our school has a parent brag sheet and it was written like an essay vs. just listing bullet points. We reviewed our kid's brag sheet and gave pointers.

Our kid attends a large public where teachers and counselors may have to write many letters. It should be different at a private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have been told that both student and parent brag sheets should be written in such a way that counselors and/or teachers could simply copy and paste sentences or paragraphs into the actual recommendation.

Our school has a parent brag sheet and it was written like an essay vs. just listing bullet points. We reviewed our kid's brag sheet and gave pointers.

Our kid attends a large public where teachers and counselors may have to write many letters. It should be different at a private school.

Any examples?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have been told that both student and parent brag sheets should be written in such a way that counselors and/or teachers could simply copy and paste sentences or paragraphs into the actual recommendation.

Our school has a parent brag sheet and it was written like an essay vs. just listing bullet points. We reviewed our kid's brag sheet and gave pointers.

Our kid attends a large public where teachers and counselors may have to write many letters. It should be different at a private school.

Wow. I had no idea. My kid's counselor has to write 175 of these, and DC just wrote bullet points. Oops.

[Anonymous]

Interesting. Our large public in nova explicitly says no brag sheets for teacher recommenders. They are to write about observed performance in the classroom and any extracurriculars you do with that teacher. Hard stop. There is one for the counselor though.

[Anonymous]

Private - 2-3 page background sheet on kid; favorite parts of class; favorite assignments

So yes do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting. Our large public in nova explicitly says no brag sheets for teacher recommenders. They are to write about observed performance in the classroom and any extracurriculars you do with that teacher. Hard stop. There is one for the counselor though.

+1

[Anonymous]

Our DCPS has a parent brag sheet and a student brag sheet that both go to counselor. Parent one is optional.

[Anonymous]

Nothing wrong with you helping kid phrase accomplishments (as long as you're not inventing them)!

Teachers will use this to help them write recs. Kids feel self conscious and tend to underreport.

[Anonymous]

Examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/IOVDKeVPdl

https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1587728748/olentangyk12ohus/w2wwtrnfoju0vcr3ujeb/STUDENTBragSheetFORLETTEROFRECOMMENDATION.pdf