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- If an application requires you to include the letter as part of the application packet, you are not to open the letter once it is given to you. Most of the time this letter will be in a sealed envelope and generally signed on the outside back flap.
- In most cases you have the option to sign a release statement about your access to reading the recommendation later. While this is your choice to sign or not, you may want to ask the recommender if that will affect what they will provide. I know that I and others in this college will not provide written statements if this statement is not signed meaning you relinquish your right to read this recommentation.
- You should not request a copy of the letter. If the person providing the letter wishes to give you a copy, that is their prerogative.
- Always fill out entirely your part of any form that needs your name, etc. Provide any forms needed and do not ask someone to go to a website and print their own.
- If the letter is to be mailed, you should definitely provide an envelop addressed to the proper place with a stamp affixed on it.
- You should allow NO LESS than 2 weeks for someone to provide a letter.
- A thank you note is certainly appropriate.
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