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8.0 My Recommendations For Official Use Only Page 18 of 38 OSCAR Applicant User Guide 2.0 Applicants must identify all their recommenders before submitting applications—this is a similar function to uploading your application documents ahead of time. My Recommendations tab is where you go to select your recommenders (My Recommenders tab) and to check the status of your recommendation letters (Status of Recommendation Letters tab). 8.1 My Recommenders OSCAR recognizes two types of recommenders in the system: (1) faculty recommenders and (2) other recommenders. • Faculty Recommenders – Users select their faculty recommenders from a dropdown picklist of recommenders already uploaded by the law school under Choose Existing Recommenders. • Other Recommenders – Users enter the name and contact information (recommender email address, phone number, and assistant’s email address) of their non-faculty recommenders under Create New Recommender. For each law school participating in the OSCAR program, the law school administrator is required to upload a master directory that contains a list of faculty recommenders for the law school. Applicants select their recommenders from the master directory pick list located in the drop down menu under Choose Existing Recommenders. (Note: Recommenders cannot be deleted once the application(s) has been submitted and are viewable to judges.) See Figure 13 -14 for screen shots. 8.1.1 Selecting Faculty Recommenders 1. Click on My Recommendations tab located towards the top of screen. 2. Select My Recommenders tab. 3. Under Choose Existing Recommenders, select all the faculty recommenders that you will use on your applications. After selecting your first faculty recommender, click on the Add to My Recommenders button to add each subsequent recommender’s name to your list. Note: Once recommenders are selected, their names will appear under the list of Current Recommenders located at the bottom of the screen). 8.1.2 Identifying/Selecting Other Recommenders 1. Recommenders that are not listed on the law school’s pick list must be entered in manually under the My Recommenders Tab by completing the fields under Create New Recommender. Note: Once the recommender is created, it will be added to your list of Current Recommenders.
8.1.3 Deleting Recommenders 1. To delete the names of recommenders from your list of Current For Official Use Only Page 19 of 38 OSCAR Applicant User Guide 2.0 Recommenders, click on the icon in the column located to the left of the recommender’s name. Deleting a recommender will cause any unsent requests to be deleted as well. It will not change any requests that have already been sent. Figure 12. Creating/Selecting Recommenders Figure 13. Deleting a Recommender 8.2 Status of Recommendation Letters Under My Recommendations, OSCAR provides a tab titled “Status of Recommendations.” This tab is where you can view the status of all your pending recommendations. 1. Go to My Recommendations and click on Status of Recommendation Letters tab. The Complete column indicates the status of the letter of recommendation. Completed letters will display a in the Complete column. Incomplete letters will display a . The Application Status column displays the following icons based on the status of your applications: "A" for Applied, "H" for Hold for Later Submission, and "W" for Withdrawn.
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