Credentials Files

The Career Development Center maintains credentials files for students or alumni considering future graduate studies or academic positions. Your credentials file can hold letters of reference from professors, copies of your academic transcript, and your personal statement (for pre-professional applications) among other documents.

Setting up a Credentials File
Visit or contact our office to receive a credentials file packet, which contains all of the necessary forms for establishing your file.

Pre-Med and Pre-Health students please read our Credential File and The Pre-Med/Pre-Health Committee FAQs

Submitting a Credentials Forwarding Request
To request that your credentials be forwarded to an institution, mail a signed "Credentials Service Request" form (which is included in the file packet) and a check for any applicable fees.  Whenever possible please allow 10 business days for your credentials to be sent to the requested institution. To have credentials forwarded via express mail service, an extra fee will apply. Contact our offices for further information.

Fees
Matriculated Degree Candidates: Setting up your credentials file and the first mailing request are free.  Additional credentials forwarding requests will require a $8.00 fee per institution.

Non-degree students and Post-Bac Pre-Med Students: There is a $50.00 fee to open a credentials file, and a fee of $9.00 per mailing request for each institution.

Fees payment is expected at time of request. Please make checks payable to: Purchase College Association.

Academic Transcripts
Students or alumni requiring academic transcripts can contact the Office of the Registrar.   By phone, they can be reached at 914-251-6366

Updated 11/14