FELLOWSHIPS FOR YALE GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS

Frequently Asked Questions

Deadlines: All deadlines are receive-by, not postmark. If your deadline is March 20, please request your recommendation letters well before Spring Break to give your professors time to write them.

Recommendation Letters: Recommenders may send letters directly to the Beinecke Director, or seal and sign the envelope across the back for the student to include in the application packet.

• Signature and Letterhead: Letters must include a signature for final consideration, and should ideally be written on official letterhead.
  
  
• Email: In an emergency, unsigned letters may be emailed as a temporary placeholder, but a signed letter must be received for final consideration.
  
  
• Scanned letters: A signed letter may be scanned and emailed as a PDF to beinecke.fellowships@yale.edu.
  
  
• Fax: Signed letters may be faxed to the Fellowship Program at (203)432-4047.
  

Applications are accepted via regular post, express mail, and hand delivery (please see below for details). Applications are not accepted by email.

• Postal Address
  Director
  Fellowship Program
  Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  P.O. Box 208240
  New Haven, CT 06520
  
  
• Express Mail Address
  Director
  Fellowship Program
  Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  121 Wall Street
  New Haven, CT 06520
  
  
• Hand Delivery
  (Sealed envelope clearly addressed to Director, Fellowship Program)
  Guard's desk, ground floor
  121 Wall Street, New Haven, between York and College Streets