推荐信在美国留学申请中是非常重要的申请材料，每所大学都需要两到三封推荐信，留学推荐信格式是很多学生感兴趣的问题，有同学问，具体的美国留学推荐信格式是什么样的呢?
1.申请美国留学推荐信格式与内容
大多数学校都要求申请人提供二至三封推荐信。有力的推荐是录取的重要条件之一。推荐信要客观、公正，切忌流于形式，内容空洞，要与申请人的其它材料(如成绩单)等相符。
留学推荐信也应注意格式、文法等。留学推荐信的格式与一般书信基本相同。有信头、发信日期、收信人姓名、称呼、正文、信尾谦称、签名、推荐人姓名、职称及工作单位等部分。
但推荐信还应着重以下方面：
1.为了便于校方查阅，必须提到被推荐者的全名。推荐者的身份不重要，当然你要是请院士来写也不错，但最关键是要说服招生委员会相信推荐人是真正了解被推荐人的。
2.必须交待与被推荐者的认识期间(何时开始认识或认识多久)，认识程度(偶尔见面或密切接触)及关系(师生关系，上下级关系，同事等)。
3.对被推荐者的优点介绍及评价，这是推荐信的核心。主要包括被推荐者的天赋，学习成绩，研究能力，工作经验，学习精神，组织能力，品行及个性方面。
注意说辞应与其他申请材料如成绩单、获奖证书等相呼应，不要出现矛盾而使人误会。人无完人，所以同时也应提及其缺点，以做到公正客观。最好通过实例说明。教授们要的不是完人，而只是学生，一个普通但足够优秀的学生。
4.必须表明推荐人的态度，是极力推荐还是有保留地推荐。
5.最好要求推荐人在信封封口处签名，以确保其真实性。最好在“是否保留日后审阅推荐信的权利”一栏填“NO”。
6.最后别图省事，除非对方明文要求与申请一起寄。否则推荐信应分开寄出。
一些学校出于各种原因，设计了推荐表格，由推荐人填写，但其主要内容也和推荐信涉及的相同。
2.范文：
希望通过这篇推荐信大家能够很好的了解美国留学推荐信的完整格式。
From: Fan Pu
Department of the SPECIAL CLASS GIFTED for YOUTHS
University of Science and Technology
Hefei, Anhui 230026, P.R. China
July 1, 1998
Dear Sir or Madam:
I take great pleasure in recommending Wang Yong(全名，这里只是一个例子哈), one of my favorite students, for admission into your distinguished graduate program.
Mr. Wang was admitted in 1986 at 14 years of age into the SPECIAL CLASS for the GIFTED YOUTHS, my university's unique program that caters to the intellectual needs of unusually talented Chinese youngsters. It was a rare privilege he earned with his nearly impeccable academic performance through the years of his elementary and secondary school.
He impressed me almost as he entered into my university, a major cradle of china's scientific and technological talents. At the time, members of the Gifted Class all had to spend half a month studying by themselves the principles of calculus and then take an exam so that we could evaluate their self-study capability. Mr. Wang scored the highest grade in that exam. He also exhibited a keenly whetted mind during class discussions. To my regret at the time, his English was not as good as his mathematics or physics.(缺点介绍，公正真实) But I noticed he made a point of working especially hard in improving his English during his five undergraduate years with us. By now, he seems to be at least as proficient in English as most of his former classmates in the Gifted Class.
In my experience with Mr. Wang, I was impressed with not only his extraordinary intelligence but also his ambitions and persistence. I am sure that Mr. Wang will be an outstanding student in any doctoral program that he may care to enroll in. So I would like to support him firmly in his quest recommendation into account when considering his application. I would greatly appreciate it you decide to accept him as he wishes.
Yours sincerely
Fan Pu
Professor and Deputy Head
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