More and more students will choose to study in the United States, so what are the standard formats of recommendation letters for studying in the United States? How to write a recommendation letter for studying in the United States? This is also a question that many students are interested in. Let’s take a look together! Below is the relevant information I compiled, welcome to read.

Introduction to the standard format of recommendation letters for studying in the United States

Letterhead means that you should use letter paper with the logo of your own school to write it, because your recommender is usually a teacher from your own school. . Our recommendation letters are printed by ourselves. You can make a letterhead and put it on it. If your department has its own letterhead, it is recommended that you use the letterhead with the logo of your department, which is better. Sometimes

The school you are applying to may require that the recommendation letter must have a letterhead, and the letterhead cannot be printed. In this case, you have to go to the school store to buy a special letterhead with a letterhead. of printing paper. At Peking University, the school's Boshi store sells this kind of paper.

There are two colors of letterhead: red and blue.

The title of the recommendation letter can be Dear Sir/Madam, Dear Admission Officer, Dear Colleague (requiring that your recommender has worked at the school you are applying for), or To whom it may have concerns, etc.

The contact information and date should be written at the top of the recommendation letter, after the letterhead. Generally speaking, the contact information of the recommender should be written instead of the contact information of the other school. Contact information is in the front and date is in the back; contact information is written on the left and date is written on the right. Of course, you don’t need to write the contact information here, if you have already stated it in the payment. Just write your contact information somewhere on the header and signature. When writing contact information, be sure to include the recommender’s position, title, phone number, and email.

The main text also follows the standard formal English style format, with each paragraph written in top space and a blank line between paragraphs.

At the end of the signature, first write an honorific in the top box, Yours sincerely or Sincerely yours. Then write the recommender’s contact information. Here is the simplest example:

ours Sincerely,

rofessor XXX

ice Dean, School of Physics

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Note that there are a few empty lines in the middle for the professor’s signature. The professor's signature is based on his own habits. Sometimes the last name comes first, sometimes the first name comes first, so the name in your Professor XXX must be consistent with the signature. As for whether the signature is in English or Chinese, it depends on the professor's habits. It is generally required to sign in English. If the professor is used to using Chinese, he can use Chinese.

As for the font of the entire recommendation letter, it must be consistent and do not use different fonts. Since you have three recommendation letters to write, you should try to use different stationery, fonts, font sizes, margins, etc. to make the styles of the three recommendation letters look different.

You must know that it is a very cumbersome process for a professor to sign a recommendation letter for you. Generally speaking, a recommendation letter requires 3 signatures: one on the recommendation letter, one on the recommendation form, and one on the envelope; and then return the signature. A date must be signed on the recommendation form. If you apply to more than a dozen schools, the professor will have to sign about 50 names, which is very tiring.

If you are authorized by the professor to sign on your behalf, then you should imitate the professor’s handwriting and sign. In this way, even if the other school has questions and comes to verify, since the professor has authorized you, the school will not Find out something.

Sometimes the professor is unwilling to sign a lot of names for you, and it’s not good if you often go to him to sign autographs. After all, you can’t always trouble the professor. At this time, you'd better imitate it yourself. Just get a few letters of recommendation and ask the professor to sign them, and then you can ghostwrite and imitate them yourself. Generally speaking, when a professor signs a recommendation letter for you, he or she will not check which school your recommendation letter is used for, so even if the other school feels that your signature is not quite right, you can come to the professor to verify it. I don’t know which schools his recommendation letters are for, so I must reply that they were written by me. Of course, if you encounter the above-mentioned situation of copying and sending the recommendation letter with the signature, there is nothing you can do. You can go directly to the professor and explain it.

As for the word count of recommendation letters for studying abroad, there are no strict requirements. As long as you speak clearly and clearly describe the characteristics of the person being recommended, it will be a good recommendation letter. Some people say that a recommendation letter must be within one page, but it doesn’t have to be. A page and a half is fine, as long as you really have something to say. Of course it's better if you can write shorter, but it doesn't matter if you don't. However, you should also note that the total length of the recommendation letter should not exceed two pages, otherwise no one will really want to read it.