Sentence examples for schools reference from inspiring English sources

Offers are therefore based on schools' reference letters, applicants' personal statements, age-16 qualifications, and expected A-level results.

The school reference describes him as a "strong applicant" and underlines the adjective.

But, says Macdonald, the private school reference was central to the story because the youth killed his father for money that was intended to pay for private schooling".

Candidates are shortlisted on the basis of their predicted A-level grades, GCSE marks, personal statement, school reference and any entrance tests or work submitted.

The school reference, most commonly written by the college counselor at the student's high school, is also extremely helpful and rounds out the picture of the applicant.

The title of Germs Burn nods to punk band the Germs, but the oldest school reference point here is probably Moore's childhood Catholicism.

The girl from Whitley Bay in Tyneside who unwittingly launched a political storm when Magdalen College, Oxford rejected her despite her five predicted As and her sterling school reference.

Mr. Frankenheimer has an entertaining bent for swift, scary violence with 1960's creaks and reverbs on the soundtracks for an old school reference point; this movie could have been directed by Gabriel.

"I saw Schilling pitch the other night with blood running down his sanitary, and he was still out there," McNamara said by telephone, using an old-school reference for players' socks.

The reason Stanford includes such an opportunity is to be clear that students must limit their letters to two or three plus the school reference, rather than send a flood of letters.

It is a school that knows what Cambridge requires, where the school reference is delivered in the terms the university is looking for – the key phrases are ones that emphasise superlative performance compared with their age group: "He [or she] is best in … he is top of …" But when a candidate comes from "a good school" they are also cut less slack.