As someone who has spent a significant portion of their career considering recommendation processes, I read the essay, “Trapped in the Quagmire of Digital Recommendation Letters” (The Chronicle, ...

Unlike job applications where you've likely met your future colleagues face-to-face, online graduate school admissions decisions happen sight unseen. Admissions committees have only your paperwork to ...

Graduate programs typically require two to four letters of recommendation. Be sure to follow the program’s instructions for submitting these letters. Many schools have an additional form that goes ...

It is around this time of year, when letter-writing season is in full swing, that many professors receive numerous requests for recommendations from students and colleagues applying for graduate ...

If you are Pre-Med or Pre-Dental and want to be considered for a committee letter and have Career Services upload your letters of recommendation, you can utilize our free placement file service.

T he letter of recommendation has outlived its usefulness and is now more trouble than it’s worth. It’s a failed genre. Let’s get rid of it. Like many of my readers, I have served on both ...

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You will probably have students ask you to write a letter of recommendation for graduate or professional school, a scholarship or fellowship, a job, or other types of experience. The following tips ...

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The faculty welcome the opportunity to write letters of recommendation for their students. To help faculty write a strong reference and ensure that it is finished in a timely fashion, please follow ...

As hiring season comes upon us again, a rising tide of faculty opinion suggests that the venerable system of using recommendation letters needs to be discarded. Critics—in meetings, on Twitter, in ...