Letters of Recommendation for Nursing School

[torasamu]

Hello Everybody,

I was wondering how others have gone about getting recommendation letters for multiple BSN and MSN programs.

I plan on applying mainly to schools in Northern California - UC San Francisco, SFSU,

CSU East Bay, Samuel Merritt, etc. It seems that all of these schools want letters of recommendation submitted along with their own specific forms. I really don't want to ask my recommenders to fill out different forms for each school, as it seems like that would be just too much to ask of them.

Has anybody dealt with this situation?

[FUTURE_ER_RN]

The schools I applied to wanted letters of reference/recommendation from the hospital I volunteer in plus the chiropractor I used to work at. I just asked the Co-Chair of the ER about doing a letter and he told me to just do it myself and he would sign it lol! So I just got that finished, and then I called my old boss and had her write me up a letter and send me a few copies. I would basically just have whoever is writing you a letter do one and makes copies so they don't have to do like 5 letters. Also, most of the schools I applied to wanted me to describe what I do, not the people writing the letters. I don't know if this is the same for you but hope it helps!

[AtomicWoman]

For the schools that had a form, my references just printed out their letter on their own letterhead and said, "Please see attached letter" on the form. However, if there are specific questions on the form that need to be answered, and those questions aren't answered in the letter, they will need to answer them, however.

[Amanda1985]

I'm in the same position too.

I'm applying to about 6 different schools in Northen and Southern CA. They all want their own form filled out!!

Atomicwoman-Thanks for the suggestion.

[torasamu]

Thank you civic_ex_099 and Atomic Woman for the suggestions.

I will probably just ask my recommenders to write "Please see attached letter." Unless of course they want to fill out all of those forms. I doubt it though.

[ro'smom]

I am applying to SFSU, and can't find any forms on their site for letters of recommendation. Did you find any, torasamu?

[sunray12]

For the schools that have the forms with the checklist of attributes the recommender has to check off each one and may also attach a letter to the form if they desire. If you want to make things convenient for your recommender then you should mail/email all of the forms to him/her at the same time. Filling out a form is actually easier for your recommender than writing letters.