22-23 AAHP: Recommendation Letter Request Form

Academy of Art of Highland Park & Gallery Inc. (AAHP)

727 Raritan Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904 USA

www.aahpnj.com (732)-777-2085

Recommendation Letter Request Form
2022 - 2023 School Year
It will be my pleasure to prepare a recommendation letter on your behalf. I take great care and pride in preparing such letters, and they have always been part of my students' successful applications to clubs and honorary societies, internships, colleges and jobs. Being an evaluation, I am being asked to point to both your strengths and weaknesses. I will accompany any mention of a weakness with my observations of your efforts to overcome them. Indeed, to help me prepare as strong a letter as possible for you, please answer the following matters briefly and submit the form. You will be contacted in a timely manner to complete the process. If your target school or program needs to reach me, or send me materials, please ask them to use this email address: art14@artacademynj.com.

Thank You,

Ana Eloisa Soto-Canino

What is today's date?

Month Day Year
What is your letter of recommendation's deadline *

Month Day Year
To whom should I address it? One person? A Committee? Several different parties? Please supply me a full name/address if pertinent. *
Please share with me any information afforded by the institution or organization to which you are sending my letter of recommendation, and which is meant for me as writer of said recommendation. *
Please tell me something key about the admissions committee if possible.... *
Please tell me something key about the SPECIFIC program you to which you are applying for entry.... *
Please check the issues you wish my letter to reflect, and add any not listed under "Other" *

Personal Character Academic Abilities Job Performance Skills Sets Sensibilities
What exactly are you seeking through this letter? A job post? Admissions to an educational program? Please be as clear and concise as possible about the precise goals you’re aiming for with this letter.... *
How should I state your formal name on paper? Please note that Georgie Miller might need to appear as George Paul Miller on paper, for example. *
What is your hometown? *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province
How old are you now? *
What is your current grade level? *
At what age did you enter the AAHP for the first time? *
What grade were you in school when you first entered our studio? *
Are you home-schooled *

Yes No
Have you enrolled for AAHP Summer Sessions only? *

Yes No
In what capacity have we known each other? *

Student Staff Both Other
If other, please specify:
Have you ever worked or volunteered at the AAHP? *

Yes No
If you have served as coach, what ranks have you held?
Please list your work or volunteer dates/periods exactly.
If you have been our student, please list all the courses you took at the AAHP. List exactly the last project you completed in any and all courses. *
How many years in total have we worked together in your role as student? *
As a student here, did you ever show your art here on our wall? *
Have you shown your work anywhere else? *
If so, please list
Any awards or recognition for your art or for any other achievement? *
If so, please list
Have I attended any private or community activities in which you also attended? For example, your pool party or Bar/Bat Mitvah, a High school game? *
If so, please list
Do you recall any particularly memorable event or encounter or moment between us? Funny? Poignant? Insightful? Weird? *
If so, please list
Below please find instructions for hard-copy AND/OR electronically delivered letters

For Hard-Copy Letters
How many signed copies will you need, strictly for your own records? *
How would you like them delivered to you for your own records? *

I will pick up at the AAHP Please mail them to me (or my parents if I'm a minor)
Name *

First Name Last Name
Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Will the AAHP mail any letter/letters to third parties other than you and me? *
How many hard copies do you wish me to mail to third parties? *
First Recipient's Name *
First Recipient's Title *
First Recipient's Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Second Recipient's Name *
Second Recipient's Title *
Second Recipient's Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Third Recipient's Name *
Third Recipient's Title *
Third Recipient's Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Fourth Recipient's Name *
Fourth Recipient's Title *
Fourth Recipient's Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Fifth Recipient's Name *
Fifth Recipient's Title *
Fifth Recipient's Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Sixth Recipient's Name *
Sixth Recipient's Title *
Sixth Recipient's Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Seventh Recipient's Name *
Seventh Recipient's Title *
Seventh Recipient's Address *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code
Are you waiving your right to see the letter? *
For Electronic Letters
Will the AAHP need to send our letter electronically to any school? *
Are any letters going through the common app? *

Yes No
Note that the AAHP cannot send your letter of recommendation through the common app unless and until you list us on your side of the common app process.
If not going through the common app, please list the individual or committee to which our letter will be sent.
Recipient's Name *

First Name Last Name
Recipient's Title *
Recipient's Email *
example@example.com
Anything else you’d need me to know???
Will this letter accompany a portfolio or other material? *
What telephone number can I reach you at while drafting the letter? *

Area Code Phone Number
What email can I reach you at while drafting the letter? *
Further notes on your Letter of Recommendation (LoR)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF USING “THE COMMON APP” ONLINE SERVICE FOR COLLEGES IN THE USA.

If you request that I send your LoR to two or more colleges using the universal “common application” online service, please know that said service does NOT allow me to see your list of school on my end.

Therefore, I cannot be held responsible for sending your LoR to the appropriate college/s online. Only you can ensure this matter when you set up your common application account on your end, list your select schools, and then me as recommender.

Please follow-up after I inform you that I’ve submitted the LoR, and verify that your select schools were targeted.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF USING A THIRD PARTY FILL-IN FORM OTHER THAN THE COMMON APP

Please note that if my LoR is to simply be filled-in, using the pre-set fields of an electronic form sent to me by the organization requesting your recommendation, then I will not be able to send your LoR on our letterhead. If I am given the choice of format, I tend to choose letterhead for more impact.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF USING SNAIL MAIL FOR COLLEGES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE USA.

Please note that hard-copy or emailed recommendation letters appear on our letterhead. Our full-color letterhead features a sidebar, which can carry a photo of one of your best works, with full attribution, alongside other works of excellence by other students of the AAHP. This is visually very impressive.

If I am to use our letterhead in your case, then please remind me of several works you have made with us, so that I can find one of them in our cloud-based, massive photo archives of several hundred thousand photos. As our archived photos are rarely labeled for lack of staff (too costly), I will need to dig all by little itty-bitty-self. I can locate the image within seconds, however, if I have proper specs. The specs I need from you are (1) an accurate year for the artwork in question (2) an accurate, or at least approximate month, (3) notes on the themes of your works, and a (5) title you may wish to give it, if any. Hot Tip: Look at your original work’s signature for a full date and then we’ll be gold.

If you do not use this option, the sidebar will still feature the work of several other AAHP students; we do this to indicate the caliber of student production at the AAHP. Thank You.
Check here if you are a P3.O student
Select Your Current Program *

Da Vinci's Toolbox (DVT, the children's program) Portfolio Prep Program Online (P3.O, the tween and teen portfolio program) Frida's Studio (the tween and teen studio program) Adult Studio
If your target school, program, or potential employer needs to reach me, or send me materials, please ask them to use this email address: art14@artacademynj.com.
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