How to Help Your Recommenders Advocate for Their Application

You can definitely share some of your application materials with them like a draft of a personal statement for example. Be careful, because once in a while you'll share a draft and they'll talk about it and then you'll completely rewrite the personal statement. I think if you were a student in their class please remind them what classes you're in maybe what grades you got. All right, so we've covered advice for you as you're kind of seeking out your recommenders. So what advice would we give to the recommenders themselves and maybe you can pass along from a few steps?