IMPORTANT NOTICE

(from the UCLA Career Center and the College of Letters & Science)

• CHANGES TO THE PAO LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION MAILING AND STORAGE SERVICE
• CHANGES TO UCLA PRE-PROFESSIONAL ADVISING SERVICES WEB SITE

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LETTER OF REC. SERVICE CHANGES

As of 1 July 2001, the PAO LOR service becomes the UCLA Career Center Letter of Reference Service. Please read the announcement and frequently asked questions below:

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The PAO Letter of Rec. Service is joining the UCLA Career Center. During this transitional period, the PAO LOR service doors are closed, however, current requests will still be processed according to our regular schedule, and new requests and letters of rec. will continue to be accepted and processed. Requests and letters of rec. for now can still be mailed to our Murphy Hall addressed or dropped-off at A-316 Murphy Hall; after 1 July 2001 they should be mailed to the Career Center addresses listed below
.  During the last two weeks in June, the PAO LOR service can be reached either by phone at (310) 825-1817 (M-F, 9-Noon) or by E-mail at pao@college.ucla.edu

Beginning July 1st, all letters of recommendation questions should be directed to the UCLA Career Center; and all forms should be mailed to the appropriate address below

In-person visits:  The Strathmore Building, 2nd floor, (at the corner of Westwood Plaza and Strathmore Boulevard)
Telephone: (310) 206-1915
Hours: 9 am - 5 pm Monday through Friday; Extended hours until 7 pm on Tuesday
Web site: http://www.career.ucla.edu

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

1. What if my recommender already sent my letter of rec. to your Murphy Hall address?  Will the letter be lost? What happens after July 1st?
2. Can I still make service requests (to mail out my LOR's) during the last two weeks of June?
3. What happens to a request I already submitted?  Will you still process it?   Are you service policies changing?
4. How do I check if my letters of rec. were mailed out?  How out I know if you have received my letter(s) of rec. from my recommender?
5. Where do I go for Pre-Professional Advising?

A1:  Letters of rec. will continue to be accepted at the Murphy Hall address for the near future, even after July 1st. However, after July 1st, we urge students to mail their letters to the new Career Center address.

A2:  YES!  Service requests will continue to accepted just drop them off at A-316 Murphy Hall, or mail to: UCLA Pre-Professional Advising, LOR Service, A-316 Murphy Hall, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1430.

A3: YES!  Previously submitted requests will still be processed according to normal PAO LOR service policies.  For now, LOR service policies remain the same, however, the Career Center reservers the right to change policies in the future.

A4:  You can open a Letter Service file, check on the status of a pending request, or see what letters are in your file by visiting MyUCLA (http://my.ucla.edu), a service of College Information Services.

A5:  To learn about the various UCLA advising units that assist pre-professional students, click HERE.

We are excited about this change and transition in the Letter of Recommendation service; the Career Center is committing to investing significant resources in the Letter service, which we believe will build upon our PAO heritage and which will result in increased reliability, efficiency, and levels of customer service for the Letter of Recommendation service.

Sincerely,

The UCLA Career Center
The staff of the UCLA PAO Letter of Recommendation Service

WEB SITE CHANGES

Along with the changes to the Letter Service mentioned above, the Pre-Professional Advising Web site is transitioning to the Career Center.  We anticipate the URL (Web site address) of this site to change, in the near future, as we gradually move this Web site from the College of Letters & Science Web servers to UCLA Career Center servers.  Once the change is made, this URL (http://www.college.ucla.edu/up/pao/) will serve as a redirect to the new Web site address (which is yet to be determined).

Also, as part of this transition, you may notice some changes and redesigns to pages within this Web site, particularly the Letter service pages as part of the rebranding and transition to the UCLA Career Center.

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