General Advice for Recommendees

• Read and follow Gary King's advice.
• Give me as much advance notice before the recommendation due date as possible.
• Create a spreadsheet of your recommendation destinations (schools you are applying to, e.g.) with the following structure, including the exact column names below:

  institution	deadline	title	fname	lname	dept	position	address1	address2 (etc.)	city	state	zip
  University of State U	12/1/2009	Dr.	Richard	Sanders	Dept of Political Science	graduate school	Graduate Admissions Committee	123 Hello Way	Frederick	MD	21701
  State University College	12/1/2009	Prof.	Frank	Bonner	Political Science Dept	graduate school	Graduate Admissions Committee	348 LB Lane	Peoria	IL	63112