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[quote=Anonymous]Have your DS see whether the campus career services office can keep a rec letter on file and then upload it / send it out by email on his behalf if he gives them the contacts.  That would not be an unheard-of service.

I personally can handle about half a dozen rec letters for an individual student before all the upload pings from the automated systems start to clutter my email and my schedule to the point of confusion (because there are plenty of people every day who need various things on various deadlines).  If your DS needs much more than that, have him talk with the professors first. They themselves may have a better solution, like insisting on sending references by email, making one list, and doing a big BCC.  (Recalcitrant faculty members can actually get concessions like this out of organizations, believe it or not.)

Failing that, at least tell DS to batch everything as close together as possible and give his recommenders a *complete, unchangeable list* of exactly what needs to be sent where, with everything organized in the same categories (e.g. destination, deadline, URL, contact).  Messy student checklists and "oh, i forgot to add this one thing" emails slow us down when we really do want to help!

--College prof[/quote]

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