Students can send teacher recommendation requests directly from their BridgeU account to their school advisor/ counselors by navigating to:
Decide tab → Teacher Recommendations
Once a student submits a recommendation request to a counselor/advisor, the recipient will receive an email notification.
As a counselor/advisor, you may receive one or more requests from students to write a letter of recommendation.
After receiving a teacher recommendation request email, click the Log in to access the request list button to view your recommender dashboard or you can log into your account at any time using your account credentials: https://app.bridge-u.com/ or for China users: https://app.bridge-u.com.cn/
Navigating your dashboard
All recommendation requests can be viewed from Recommendations > My requests. This page displays all recommendation requests assigned to you, along with their current status.
To start or continue a recommendation, locate the student's request and click the pencil (edit) icon on the right-hand side of the row.
You can use this page to view, complete, edit, and submit recommendation forms for all assigned students in one place.
You will be taken to the recommendation form, which is divided into multiple sections.
Filling Out the Form
The recommendation form is divided into multiple sections to help you complete it step by step.
Complete all required fields in each section carefully.
Use the section titles on the right-hand side—Personal Details, School Details, Subject Area, and Written Evaluation to navigate between different parts of the form.
Make sure to review each section before proceeding to the next.
If you are unable to complete the form in one sitting, click “Save” to store your progress. You can return later and continue from where you left off.
If you upload a letter of recommendation in the Written Evaluation section, please ensure that the file is a PDF, less than 2MB in size and is NOT password encrypted.
Once all sections are complete, review your responses thoroughly and click “Submit” to send the recommendation to the assigned student’s advisor.
Or, Once you have completed all required sections and reviewed your responses, return to Recommendations > My requests. When the recommendation status changes to Ready to submit, click the Submit form icon on the right-hand side of the student's request to submit the recommendation to the student's advisor for processing.
After submission
After submitting a recommendation, the request status will change to Submitted.
If the recommendation is still editable, you can click the edit (pencil) icon in the Action column to open the form, make changes, and resubmit it.
If the recommendation can no longer be edited, the blue information icon (i) will be displayed instead. Hovering over the icon will show a message indicating that the form can no longer be edited and that any requested changes must be coordinated with the student's advisor.
In this case, please contact the student's advisor directly if updates or corrections need to be made to the submitted recommendation.
Advisors receiving completed recommendations from recommenders will process the recommendation in the same way on behalf of students, there is no change to this process for advisors.
Kindly note that once the recommendation letters have been completed, the assigned advisor will send the documents from the Document Sending Page.
For more information on how to submit completed teacher recommendations to universities, please review this help centre article: Teacher Recommendations Overview
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