when schools ask to attach refs to an online app

[anonomouse]

What have you guys been doing when schools ask you to attach your letters of references to an online application? So far two schools I'm interested in applying to- U of South Dakota and Winona State- have asked for applicants to attach their own letters of reference to an online application. Obviously I don't have my own letters as my referees aren't giving them to me (and on the south dakota website it just has one slot for letters, so even if I did have them I could only attach one).

Any thoughts? Anyone else applying to these two schools? What did you do?

[anoni]

Email the schools and ask them - then post any answer you get here .

This is a legitimate question and I don't think there is a standard procedure for dealing with it...

[pragmatist]

Those who write letters may also want to have them confidential. I would ask them how to deal with this issue, as it is *not* standard practice in soc for faculty to write an open letter the candidate may read.

[water]

I contacted the HR person (Winona) about this today - I told her letters of recommendation and transcripts would be coming under separate cover. She said that was fine, she would scan them and include them in my application.

[anonomouse]

water- do you have the address for where to send the Winona letters? They haven't gotten back to me yet.

I did hear back from South Dakota:

"Please have your reference letters sent to the following address: Dr. Jack Niemonen, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, 301 East Hall, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069."

[water]

i'm just having them sent to the woman in HR they listed in their job ad. That's who I contacted via e-mail, so it should be fine.

My bigger concern here is that the dept probably won't get to see your packet until it is complete because of this system. So I just hope my letter writers get their stuff in on time!