D23 is in public school. We generated a college list and teachers uploaded their LORs to Naviance then consoler sent them to colleges in Commonapp. This was done. Recently we wanted to add a few colleges to the list,consoler told D she should ask the teachers to upload LORs again. My question is that weren’t they already saved in naviance? Why should we bother the teachers again?
No clue about naviance. But if you have a common app account they are in there. You have 20 slots.
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When my D22 requested LORs for new colleges in Naviance, they were immediately sent. The teachers didn’t have to do anything.
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Thank you! I thought the LORs should be there. I’ll let D check
Thanks! Our consoler seems need to submit them from naviance to common app. Need to ask D again…
Are you in the United States or are you abroad? (Either as an international student or a student studying abroad).
If you are abroad, maybe the counselor (that’s how it’s spelled) doesn’t understand how the system works.
I’m in the US. Regular large public school…
And thanks for correcting my spelling. I’m not a native English speaker 
Is there a head of guidance you can contact at the school?
Sue must have a common app sign on even if you are sending from another place.
If she can find it, you can check her common app portal and they’d likely be there.
I never worked with naviance but sounds like she has a common app. Go to commonapp.org and see
Thanks. My understanding is that student and teacher communicate with their high school with Naivance, and school counselor uses the information on Naivance to send school related info to colleges on commonapp. I guess after counselor submitted for our existing college list somehow they discarded the old LORs and for new colleges they have to ask for new upload. I’ll double check. Maybe it’s not worth the hassle…
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The way it usually (meaning really my experience) is that students connect their common app and naviance accounts. Then they request LORs or transcripts in Naviance. These are automatically sent to CommonApp and onto colleges.
What happens if you add a college in Naviance and request LORs be sent to that college from specific teachers? In our case, Naviance immediately showed them as sent and Common App did too after some time.
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D is reaching out to the school counselor who works on her case. Will update after she gets back the answer.
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She can try and sign into common app. Do a reset my password
We applied via common. The letters are stored and for each school that requires you just add the stored letter to the app. Sounds like naviance is an extra step.
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Update: D’s counselor told her they can add new colleges, no need to ask teachers to redo the upload of LORs. It turned out last time she went to the office her counselor was not there and somebody who’s not familiar to the process gave her the inaccurate information.
Thanks to every body for the help! Good luck to all!
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Naviance is unlike Common app- because of FERPA, teachers have to upload LoRs for each school the student selected. So it’s not like the LOR is stored and then the student selects the LoR to be sent to the school of choice. Teacher has to manually upload to each school at least at our school that’s how it’s done.
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