Students: Requesting a Letter of Recommendation

Requesting Letters of Recommendation from a teacher or staff member IN your school or district

Most of the time you'll be requesting a recommendation from a teacher at your current school, or a teacher from your school district. They also use MajorClarity, so you can find their name by searching in the Recommender box.

• Log in to your MajorClarity account.
• Navigate to the Application Center tab.
• Scroll down until you see the Recommendation Letter Requests section and click Request a Recommendation.
• Type the name of the staff member you would like to have write a recommendation for you. As you type, a list of teachers, counselors, and administrators that match from your school will appear. If there's more than one person with the same name, make sure their email address matches.
• Next, search for and select the recipient of this letter (school, university, community college, etc.) in the Destination field. **Please note that this field is required; if this field is not filled out, the recommender will not have the option to upload a document.
• Optional - leave a message for your recommender. If you haven't already shared with them your reason for selecting them and other information pertinent to your application, we suggest doing so here.
• Be sure to add in your Recommendation Letter Deadline as well so the recommender knows how long they have to complete it. We recommend giving your recommender at least 2 weeks, if possible, to submit the letter of recommendation.
• Click Send Request when finished!

Note: if you need a single recommender's letter to be delivered to multiple schools, you'll need to submit a recommendation request for each school.

Requesting Letters of Recommendation from a teacher or other person OUTSIDE of your school or district

You can also use MajorClarity to ask for a recommendation from someone who is not a teacher, or is a teacher from a school district you previously attended. However, it's important to only use the following instructions if the teacher or recommender is not employed at your school. If they might be, first try searching for them using the above instructions. Otherwise, proceed with the directions below:

• Login to your MajorClarity account.
• Navigate to the Application Center tab.
• Scroll down until you see the Recommendation Letter Requests section and click Request Recommendation.
• If the person you'd like to select is not in the dropdown or is not in your school, check the box that says "Was your recommender not in the dropdown or outside of your school/district?"
• Fill in the required information carefully:
  • Recommender Email (double check that this is correct before sending, otherwise they won't receive the request!)
  • Recommender First Name
  • Recommender Last Name
• Next, search for and select the recipient of this letter (school, university, community college, etc.) in the Destination field. **Please note that this field is required; if this field is not filled out, the recommender will not have the option to upload a document.
• Optional - leave a message for your recommender. If you haven't already shared with them your reason for selecting them and other information pertinent to your application, we suggest doing so here.
• Be sure to add in your Recommendation Letter Deadline as well so the recommender knows how long they have to complete it. We advise giving your recommender at least 2 weeks, if possible, to submit the letter of recommendation.
• Click Send Request when finished!

Note: if you need a single recommender's letter to be delivered to multiple schools, you'll need to submit a recommendation request for each school.

Checking on the status of your Recommendation Letter Request:

1. Automatically, by sending it through MajorClarity to the institution you selected.
2. Manually, by emailing or mailing it to the institution you selected.

• Requested: the recommender hasn't made any updates yet, but may be working on the letter itself.
• Processing: the recommder submitted their letter of recommendation electronically. It will be delivered to the selected institution within 72 hours.
• Delivered: the letter of recommendation has been delivered to the selected institution.
• Submitted: the recommender submitted their letter of recommendation manually. Follow up with the recommender for more details about timing.
• Cancelled: the recommendation request was cancelled by the student.
• Removed: the recommendation request was removed by the recommender. If you think this may by a mistake, we suggest you follow up directly with the recommender.