Choosing recommenders
Pick people who can write specifically about your work — a professor from a class where you did a project, a research or internship supervisor — over a famous name who barely knows you. A lukewarm letter from a big name hurts more than a warm one from a lecturer.
Managing many applications
If you're applying to several programs, the credential file service holds your letters and sends them to each on request, so recommenders write once. Give everyone a single spreadsheet of destinations and dates, and send a reminder a week out and a thank-you after.
In and around Porter Falls
Career Services works with every major, but the pattern is the same across them: a required internship, co-op or clinical placement before graduation, listed on each program page. Ninety-six percent of Porter undergraduates complete one, most of them with an employer in the Valley or the Cities.
The practical details
Ask early: Four to six weeks before the deadline, in person or by a thoughtful email, with an out for them to decline. Give them: Your résumé, the prompt, deadlines, a note on what to emphasize, and a stamped envelope or a submission link. Waive access: Almost always — a confidential letter carries far more weight with readers. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Career Services (Founders Union, Room 160). Call (715) 555–0205 or email careers@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.