Beinecke: 3 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Letters should be from faculty members and assess the nominee’s intellectual curiosity, character and potential for advanced graduate study.

Boren: 2-3 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Recommendations should

1. Be academic and comment on your academic, linguistic, and personal preparation for the study abroad program, especially as they relate to the Boren Scholarship objectives.
2. Speak to your ability to carry out you proposed study abroad plan, your U.S. national security argument and your career interests.

The third letter of recommendation is optional and should only be submitted if you believe it will strengthen your application. It can come from another professor or from a non-college level language instructor, such as a high school language teacher or a private tutor, relevant work or internship experience.

Churchill: 4 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Give your recommenders this form to guide their writing.

Goldwater: 3 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Recommenders should be individuals who know the student’s academic and research strengths and weaknesses well. Those who have served as faculty mentors for a student on a research project are among the student’s most important references. Letters can also come from faculty or post-docs who may not have served as the student’s research mentor but have interacted with or observed some aspect of the student’s research work. Letters from faculty who know a student well from the student’s science, math or engineering classes, particularly those who can relate course materials to the student’s research career interests or who can comment on the student’s research aspirations, are also among the group of appropriate letter writers. Evaluations from former high school teachers, coaches or family friends are generally of minimal value.

James C. Gaither: 2 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: These recommendations can come from anyone the students feels can best speak to their abilities as a potential Gaither Junior Fellow.

Knight-Hennessy: 2 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Your recommenders must be able to provide specific examples, anecdotes, and evidence of your ability and determination to make a difference. Here are a few things to consider as you choose recommenders

1. In general, we care about the content of the letter, not the title or position of the person who wrote it.
2. Your Knight-Hennessy Scholars recommendations are the only reference letters that we will review before we provide input to your graduate program.
3. Once your graduate program shares its feedback with Knight-Hennessy Scholars, we also will review your departmental recommendation letters. As such, your recommendation choices for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program should make a compelling independent case, and also complement the references of your graduate program.
4. It's fine to ask the same person to provide recommendations for your graduate program and for Knight-Hennessy Scholars, but ensure that he/she submits distinctive letters of reference that address the questions each application requires.

Luce: 4 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Letters should represent a range of academic and professional references.

Marshall: 3-4 letters of recommendation

*Only 3 letters are required for endorsement, though you may submit one more.

Guidelines: Your recommenders should be able to supplement the required Letter of Endorsement by providing further details as to your qualifications.

1. The first of these should be designated the Preferred Recommender and this recommender should have supervised your college or university training.
2. At least two recommendations must be provided by academics.
3. One of the recommendations may primarily address your leadership and ambassadorial potential, and this need not be provided by an academic.
4. At least three of these recommenders should be in the United States.

Michel David-Weill: 3 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Two letters must be academic. The core values of the scholarship are academic excellence, leadership, multiculturalism, tolerance and high achievement.

Mitchell: 4 letters of recommendation

*Only 3 letters are required for endorsement, though you may submit one more.

Guidelines: For full-time students, at least two of these recommendations must be from persons with whom the candidate has done academic work. For those who are not full-time students and have not been for the past year, at least one of the recommendations must be from someone with whom the candidate has done academic work.

Rhodes: 5-8 letters of recommendation

*Only 4 letters are required for endorsement, though you may submit more.

Guidelines: At least four of these letters must be persons from whom the applicant has received undergraduate or graduate instruction, and at least one letter (the fifth) must speak to the applicant's character.

Schwarzman: 3 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Recommenders should know you well and be able to speak to your intellectual abilities, personal characteristics and/or leadership potential. The letters should be written in English.

• Currently Enrolled Undergraduates should have two letters from professors who can speak to your academic abilities and one letter specifically addressing your leadership abilities (this can be from an employer, supervisor, mentor, faculty member, advisor, or other).
• Graduate Students and Young Professionals should have one letter from a Professor, one letter specifically addressing your leadership abilities, and for the final one, you should choose from the following options that will best represent your current profile: an employer or mentor, additional academic letters, or some combination of the above options.

Truman: 3 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Each of the letters should address one of our selection criteria, but it is acceptable for a letter to discuss more than one criteria.

1. Leadership Abilities and Potential: This letter should confirm the experience described in Question 7 (specific example of your leadership). The letter writer need not have witnessed the example first hand, but he or she should be able to discuss the example and how it fits within the context of the student's leadership.
2. Commitment to a Career in Public Service: This letter should confirm the experience described in Question 8 (recent, satisfying public service activity). The letter writer need not have witnessed the activity first hand, but he or she should be able to discuss the example and how it fits within the context the student's commitment to a career in public service.
3. Intellect and Prospects for Continuing Academic Success: This letter should discuss the student's overall academic background in context of the student's future plans for career and graduate school (Questions 11 to 13). It is recommended, though not required, that the writer have taught the student at some point.

Udall: 3 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Letters should speak to your leadership, public service and academic achievements.

Yenching: 2 letters of recommendation

Guidelines: Recommendations are to be provided by professors, academic advisors, or other individuals in a position to comment on the applicant's achievements, character, and potential.