DeHe - We did submit the letter of recommendation. Maybe I misinterpreted the question. We didn't submit a portfolio, but submitted everything else in the application. We applied when our son was 5 and the preschool teacher wrote a recommendation. She was the first one to really recognize his differences, and she was happy to do it. If you have the scores, I'm guessing the recs won't mean quite so much, especially in the youngest applicants who haven't really done much of anything yet.