MathPath Online Non-Academic Recommendation

 

Thank you for helping this student apply to MathPath. This form should take you only 10-15 minutes. If you want to write a letter instead of completing this form, you may do so, but it will take longer and it should still cover the sorts of things this form shows we are interested in. If you write a letter, email it as an attachment to smaurer1@swarthmore.edu. Be sure to include the 4-digit code the student gave you.

MathPath is technically not a school, and thus the US FERPA laws do not apply. This means that we are allowed to keep your recommendation confidential, and fully intend to, even though the student has signed no waiver.

After you fill in any box, don't hit Return to go to the next box. On some browsers this submits your survey.  Rather, use Tab or Point-and-Click.  When you are done, hit Submit at the bottom. 

If your recommendation does get submitted prematurely just start over and resubmit, putting a note in the last comment box that this is a resubmission. There is no way to save this form halfway through and return to it, so you might want to look over the whole thing before starting to answer.

For the longer optional comment boxes at the end, you may want to cut and paste your answer from another program. Do NOT cut and paste from a full-featured word processor like Word, that uses nonprinting characters; this may cause submission to fail. If you want to cut and paste, do so from a pure text program like NotePad or TextEdit.


Name of Applicant

     Surname (family name)    

     First Name    

4-digit code the applicant gave you to use:    (this helps us verify and link your recommendation to the applicant)

 

Information about you

     Name (first then last)    

 

     How long have you known this applicant? In what capacity?

            

 

    Email address  

    Phone daytime     evening  

                                                                                                       

Your Postal mailing address

Line 1 (usually street address)  

Line 2  

City or Town

State or Province Abbreviation (if in US or Canada)   

Zip or Postal Code  

Country if not US  

         

Below is a list of personal qualities, some good, some bad, that sometimes make a difference at MathPath. For each, click on the appropriate button: Yes (s/he has it), Sometimes, No, you Don't Know. Please know: We get a few quirky kids, and MathPath is generally a very tolerant environment for them, where they thrive. No one answer you give is going to disqualify a kid, so please give your honest assessment.

Admits mistakes, does not blame others:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Articulate:       

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Big ego; thinks of him/herself as the smartest around:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Complimentary to others on their successes:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Concerned about status:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Curious:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Emotionally mature for his or her age:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Energetic:

         Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Enthusiastic:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Exercises and eats healthy food:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Flexible:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Gets wild when not well supervised:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Good sense of humor:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Good social skills:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Happy:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Hardworking:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Has tantrums or gets angry often:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Internally motivated:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Likes to work with other kids:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Loner (fine with us if s/he is happy that way):

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Manages well away from home:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Moves from task to task easily:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Positive bonds with family:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Responsible:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Self-centered, demands attention:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

Tenacious:

              Yes         Sometimes       No                   Don’t know  

 

To your knowledge, what are the applicant’s strongest interests?

In this final optional box (which can expand to any length) put anything else you want to tell us, either praise or concerns. If you want to write a letter-length answer, best to send it as email as described at the top, because messages in this box lose their formatting.

 

Thank you again for recommending this student. We acknowledge receipt of recommendations every few days. If you don’t hear from us, email Prof Maurer. Also, if upon hitting submit you get an error page instead of a thank you page, don't immediately resubmit, but instead contact Prof Maurer. Our experience is that your recommendation was still submitted, but it was truncated where the error occurred &ndash probably a non-ascii character you inserted, perhaps by cut and paste.