Counselors: Ranking a Student's Recommendations

Cristina Hernandez Updated by Cristina Hernandez

Ranking lets you set a preferred order for a student's teacher recommendations, which Scoir then automatically assigns to colleges before they're fulfilled. Students can also rank their own recommendations, depending on your school's settings. No manual assignment needed.

Is Ranking enabled at your school?

Ranking is controlled by a toggle in Account settings under Letters of Recommendation called "Require assignment of recommendations to specific colleges". 

If your school uses the Scoir + Common App integration, ranking is on by default and cannot be disabled. It will appear greyed out to indicate that it cannot be updated. For all other schools, an Account Administrator can turn it on and choose which graduating class to start with (Class of 2027 or later).

If your school also has "Allow students to request and assign recommendations" enabled, students will be able to set their own ranking as part of that process.

If ranking is not enabled at your school, counselors can still manually manage recommendation assignments.

How to Rank a student's recommendations

You can set or update a student's ranking from their profile at any time, as long as at least one recommendation request has been made, whether by you or the student.

  1. Go to the student's profile and open Colleges & Applications > Manage Documents.
  2. Scroll to the Recommendations section and click Rank Recs. Students with permission to request recommendations can also rank and update the order themselves. Numbered badges reflect any ranking already set.
  3. Use the arrows to arrange recommendations in your preferred order, then click Save. In the example below, the counselor moved Luke to #1, bumping Emma to #2 and Janet to #3.

The student's ranking and yours stay in sync—either of you can update it at any time before recommendations are sent. If new recommendations are requested later, you or the student will need to update the ranking to include them. For more on the student experience, see For Students: Ranking Teacher Recommendation Requests.

Once ranked, Scoir automatically assigns them to open slots at every college a student has marked as Applying or Applied. For example, if a college accepts two teacher recommendations, Scoir assigns the #1 and #2 ranked recommendations automatically. If it only accepts one, it assigns #1.

Don't forget to send recommendations. Once you've set the ranking and your teachers complete their recommendations, counselors still need to send them to colleges. Ranking and assignment happen automatically, but sending is always your responsibility.

Auto-send exception: If your school has the auto-send teacher recommendations setting enabled, Scoir will send the recommendation automatically once another document has already been sent to that college, as long as the recommendation was already assigned beforehand.

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