Thank you for recommending our applicant!

At Boston University College of Fine Arts, we appreciate your role in helping us get to know our candidates as both artists and scholars. Your personal, frank assessment provides us with information on how this candidate may enrich our graduate student community.

Privacy Information: Under the 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the candidate will have access to this recommendation unless he or she has waived that right. You may view the candidate’s rights by clicking on “Preview Evaluation” at the bottom of your recommendation page. The automatically generated PDF shows the line “I waive my right of access to this recommendation” along with the candidate’s answer of YES or NO.

RECOMMENDATION INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Return to the recommendation form and acknowledge having read these instructions in full.
  2. Complete the first part of the recommendation as prompted. In the ratings section, please consider 5 (“Excellent”) as among the top artists, students, or professionals you have encountered, and 1 (“Poor”) as among the worst.
  3. Upload a separate letter of recommendation according to the guidelines below.
  4. Click the “Submit Evaluation” button when you are completely satisfied with your recommendation. We will not be able to view the recommendation until it has been submitted but you will not be able to make changes after it has been submitted. If you need to stop and return to the recommendation at a later time, use the “Save Evaluation” button.
LETTER GUIDELINES

Please prepare a short letter of recommendation in which you speak to your knowledge of the candidate as a scholar, professional, and artist. We are especially interested in understanding your history/relationship with the candidate, the candidate’s current artistic ability and potential for growth, as well as his or her emotional maturity and ability to collaborate with others.

Technical requirements:

  • Please ensure that your full name and contact information is included in the letter, as well as the full name of the candidate.
  • Files may be in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), Portable Document Format (.pdf), or text (.rtf or .txt) format.
  • The letter must be written in English.

With questions about the content of your recommendation or for more information about any of our programs, please contact arts@bu.edu.

For technical support in completing the recommendation or with any trouble accessing your account or the recommender website, please contact letters@liaisoncas.com.