大多數美國大學都要求申請人提供二至三封推薦信。所以瞭解出國留學推薦信格式非常有必要。一般來說，推薦信的格式與一般書信基本相同。有信頭、發信日期、收信人姓名、稱呼、正文、信尾謙稱、簽名、推薦人姓名、職稱及工作單位等部分。但推薦信還應著重以下方面：
1.被推薦人的全名
為了便於校方查閱，必須提到被推薦者的全名。推薦者的身份不重要，當然你要是請院士來寫也不錯，但最關鍵是要說服招生委員會相信推薦人是真正瞭解被推薦人的`。
2.推薦人與被推薦人的認識時間和關係
必須交待與被推薦者的認識期間(何時開始認識或認識多久)，認識程度(偶爾見面或密切接觸)及關係(師生關係，上下級關係，同事等)。
3.介紹推薦人的優點並作出評價
對被推薦者的優點介紹及評價，這是推薦信的核心。主要包括被推薦者的天賦，學習成績，研究能力，工作經驗，學習精神，組織能力，品行及個性方面。注意說辭應與其他申請材料如成績單、獲獎證書等相呼應，不要出現矛盾而使人誤會。人無完人，所以同時也應提及其缺點，以做到公正客觀。最好通過例項說明。教授們要的不是完人，而只是學生，一個普通但足夠優秀的學生。
出國留學推薦信範文(一)
Dear Sir or Madam,
At the request of University of Denver, my student in Zhengzhou 19th High School, I’m providing this reference, which I hope can be useful for you to review her application to your undergraduate program.
I have been the Chinese teacher and class director in Zhengzhou 19th High School for more than ten years. We are one of the most famous and high-quality high schools in the whole city, the faculties in our school are all renowned and highly-experienced. Though I’m relatively young in the school, I have lots of experience in Chinese teaching and student managing. I have been titled the outstanding young teacher and class-director by school and city.
Yadi Wang came to my class in September 2006, the semester she entered our school. I know she is talent in music. She used to performance flute in our school activities, such as in talent show. In 2007, she passed the high level test of FLUTE LEVEL 8. She loves music that is all her classmates and school teachers know.
YADI WANG had special leadership and friendship in my class. Once we were about to take part in our school’s drama festival. We were supposed to play a Chinese traditional drama –BAIMAONU. I analyzed some key plots and roles of this drama to my students, and then left all the other works to their own. YADI WANG was in charge of the directing and casting. It was not an easy job as it may sound. The enthusiasm made everybody ask for the leading roles, but no one was willing to take these minor ones. So YADI WANG decided to run an audition. Combined the performance in the audition and students’ actual characteristics, YADI WANG assigned everyone the most suitable role. And then, she divided the crew into several groups. Different groups rehearsed in different places at the same time. And the leading actors were the strings to connect these groups into a collectivity. Through this way, it saved lots of time, which was the scarcest thing to middle school students, to get everybody into his role. And before the final performance, she just needed to call all the actors together for a preview for once or twice. She has done even better than I had expected.
Another time was in a seminar, we ran a debate competition about teacher’s professional ethics. YADI WANG was the leading debater of the con side. During the debate, she showed her wide knowledge and eloquence. She used lots of proverbs, history figures and examples to support her stand, and every word of her was incisive to get to the point, and also full of humors. Her performance won both her teammates and opponents’ admiration.
Her positivity and versatility also can be found in many other aspects. She is ours school’s famous piano player who is always invited to play in many occasions. She knows the traditional skill of calligraphy writing, which she has been practicing from very small. During weekends or vacations, the “Holiday Working Team” she leads can always be found doing many community services. Normally, in order to get more students to participate in class’s management, the student cadre will change every semester or two, by student vote. But Yadi Wang has won all the elections by now, so she continued to be the monitor from the beginning of our class to today, and very likely to the graduation. All her classmates have approbated her ability, characteristics and performance. She is already a model in the class.
In this reference, I didn’t mention much about Yadi Wang’s grade, which I believe you can easily find was so outstanding from her transcripts and her ranking (25th out of 1560 students), because I’d like to give you something that you cannot find from these documents but I think is equally important to contribute to her excellence. I do hope, according to my recommendation, you could give her a favorable review. Thank you! Please feel free to contact me.