Advice for Recommendations

If you would like me to write you a letter of recommendation:

• 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 specific person 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).