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Where Letters Can Be Sent

The Letter Service is obligated to protect the confidentiality of your letters. We verify the outgoing address of all requests and will cancel your request if you have entered a residential or unrecognizable/verifiable address, regardless of purpose or intent. This means that if the chair of a department/committee would like to have letters mailed to their home, we are unable to comply.

If a school instructs you to include letters of recommendation with your applications, please do not request for letters to be mailed to you. Simply contact the school and let them know that you are using the Letter Service and that the letters will arrive separately. This is a standard practice among schools and schools have been accepting letters forwarded from the Letter Service for years. If any recipient should refuse to let the letters be mailed separately from the application packet, take down a contact name, contact phone number, and then let us know. We will work out something with them on your behalf.

The Letter Service will send your letters of recommendation to:

Academic Admissions Offices/Committees: These include medical schools, graduate schools, professional schools, and credential programs.
Academic Search Committees: We will send your letters to support your academic employment applications. The positions can be offered by universities, colleges, and K-12 schools. Please make sure the address is consistent with the address provided by the employer on their job listings.
Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards Supporting Graduate/Professional Education: We will send letters to support your application for these programs. Please be aware that whereas educational institutions can be easily verified by our staffs, some fellowships and scholarships are new and/or obscure, therefore information about them may not be readily available to us. When you are applying to any program that is not affiliated with a college or university, contact us via email before hand with the recipient's contact information so that we can make a determination.
Educational and Research Employment, including Post-Doc Fellowships: You may be asked to provide us with a brochure, website, phone number or other program information. If you cannot provide this information, your request will be cancelled. When in doubt, please contact us via email ASAP for further instruction before you proceed.

These policies also apply to copies of non-confidential letters. If you wish to have copies of non-confidential letters sent to schools, you must make online requests for them to be sent directly to your institutions. If you make online requests for letters to be sent to you, these requests will be cancelled. Only unofficial copies of non-confidential letters can be sent to you. Requests for unofficial copies must be sent via email. The first copy of each non-confidential letter is free, subsequent copies will be $1 each.

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