Hi all,
-I’ve already asked for recs earlier this year, and they’ve all been uploaded by my teachers/counselors/etc on the Common App. I am aware that teachers write just one rec, and it is sent to all schools that I have currently invited them to write for.
Do teachers who have already uploaded my recs get an email each time I send an invite via Common App? Or does sending an invite just mean that their rec is automatically sent to the school through Common App’s doing?
I would like to add a few schools last-minute, but I don’t want to clog up my teachers’ inbox with Common App requests or make them have to log on during break. So I guess what I’m asking is, if I were to add new schools to my list last minute and invite my teachers for the recommendations, do my teachers need to do anything, or does Common App automatically send the letters to the school since they are already in the system?
Similarly, since my counselor is the one to approve of application fee waivers. If I were to add schools, would she need to log on to approve of fee waivers for my added schools, or is it automatically applied since she has already filled out previous forms?
TL;DR
-I’m basically looking for a “yes, that’s how it works” to the following statement by user flyingllama in 2009, (which is worded much more eloquently than mine) regarding letters of recommendation:
“…one general form that they completed, and then you can subsequently add colleges and match the schools with that teacher, without having [to] get my teachers to come back and fill in additional forms…”