Get Your Recommendation Letter

One of the hardest things for me about my grad school application was rounding up all of those recommendation letters. Tara Kuther at About.com offers a few tips on how to go about getting them:

Learn about letters of recommendation – what they are, who writes them, and how to prepare – early in your college career, well before it is time to apply to graduate school.

Seek experiences that will help you develop relationships with faculty that will get you excellent letters.

Understand that admissions committees seek letters from specific types of professionals

You can read the rest of her article here, on the About.com Grad School Guide.