For Mr. Freeman · Letter of Recommendation

Rehman Mahmood / Class of 2027

You asked what to write about. This is everything in one place: the business, the software, and the MSA. You've been around for most of it, so none of this should be new. It's just all written down.

The basics

CollegeLehigh University
PlanEarly Decision
Ideally in byOctober 25
Hard deadlineNovember 1
HowCommon App emails you an upload link (Teacher section)
FERPAWaived. I won't see the letter.
MajorComputer science, toward cybersecurity or AI
00

The short version

If it helps, these are the two things I'd most want a college to hear from you.

Initiative

I build things from nothing.

A marketing agency, an app on the App Store, a club that only existed on paper. None of it was handed to me.

Learning by doing

I teach myself by shipping, then fixing what breaks.

Every one of these started rough. What made them work was going back and improving them.

The business, the software, and the MSA all run the same way for me. Find something that isn't working, build the fix, keep improving it.
01

The business

Rubicon Marketing. I co-founded it in high school with two other students. We run Google Ads, build websites and apps, do AI automation, social media, and video and photo for local businesses. You've heard about most of this from me as it happened, the good months and the bad ones.

51
qualified leads for a roofing contractor in 2 months
$117K+
revenue for that client off those leads
553K
organic views in a 30-day Instagram trial, $0 ad spend
97.9%
of those viewers were new people, not followers

Site: rubiconmarketing.pages.dev (case studies with the real numbers are on there)

02

The software

I taught myself to code, mostly by building things and figuring out why they broke. Most of what I build solves a problem I actually had.

1
app live on the App Store
127
countries it's available in
991
real College Board questions in my SAT app
03

The MSA

President, second year. You've been the advisor the whole time, so you've seen every decision, including the ones that didn't go right.

2
years as president
37
students, all four grades, gave feedback at meeting one
1 day
for the jersey fundraiser to sell out
100%
of that money donated
04

Where I'm headed

I want to study computer science at Lehigh and go toward cybersecurity or AI. I haven't locked in which yet. What I know is I learn best by building something real and improving it as I go, and that's what I want to keep doing in college.

I'll send one quick check-in around October 18. If you want to talk through any of this, I'm around.

Thank you, Mr. Freeman.Rehman Mahmood · Class of 2027