<p>Hi, I'm going to be applying to a lot of scholarships (like 20), most of which require letters of recommendation. I'm wondering how I can keep from driving my recommenders crazy with requests for different letters of recommendation! </p>
<p>How do people handle this? Do you have one "to whom it may concern letter"? Do they give you a copy of the letter electronically and you just change the names? (Is that too much trust?) Etc.</p>
<p>Help!</p>
<p>Usually, they write one letter which should serve pretty much all purposes, and save it on their computer. You give them stamped self-addressed envelopes. For S' transfer apps (and there were about a dozen), the professor asked us to pencil the deadline for each on the envelope, which we did. If any of the scholarships seem to want something unusual covered in the rec letter, you can include that form, highlighting that info, with the envelope (hope there won't be many of those :)!)</p>
<p>Even if some of the scholarships have their own form, most of them will allow/expect the recommender to just staple his recommendation to the form. Any forms that you give to the recommender should have items that you can fill in already done, as a courtesy and a help.</p>
<p>There usually isn't any need for them to fill in the name of each college/organization on the letter for regular admissions recs; not sure about scholarship recs. I would just talk it over with the recommender, suggest you will do as I've outlined above, and ask if there is anything else you can to do make the task easier.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, jmmom. I guess this means I need to get started super-early. :)</p>