Advice for Recommendations

• Read and follow Gary King's advice.
• Give me as much advance notice before the recommendation due date as possible.
• If you would like me to send letters directly to several destinations, please create a spreadsheet of the destinations (schools you are applying to, e.g.) with the following structure, including the exact column names below:

  institution

  instShort

  deadline

  title

  fname

  lname

  dept

  position

  subfield

  address1

  address2 (etc.)

  city

  state

  zip

  the University of My State

  UMS

  2019-12-05

  Dr.

  Richard

  Sanders

  Department of Political Science

  Ph.D. program

  political science

  Graduate Admissions Committee

  123 Hello Way

  Frederick

  MD

  21701

  State University College

  State UC

  2019-12-06

  Prof.

  Frank

  Bonner

  Political Science Department

  master's program

  public policy

  Graduate Admissions Committee

  348 LB Lane

  Peoria

  IL

  63112

• If there is no one to send the letter to, use Admissions as the title and Committee as the last name.
• If the ZIP code begins with a zero (e.g., 02138), omit the leading zero (e.g., 2138).