<p>I'm guessing this question has been asked millions of times already, but I have yet to find any threads on it, and I am desparate/in a hurry (sort of). I'm just confused with the whole process of recommendation letters and submitting them to colleges. Most of the schools I'm applying to use the Common App, and the rest use ApplyTexas (basically a CommonApp for most Texas colleges). I heard the Common App prefers teachers to submit their rec letters online so that the same one can be sent to all the colleges you apply to using Common App. I don't think ApplyTexas does this, however. So what do I tell my teacher? Should I ask him/her to hand-write the letter for some schools, and then type it up for the Common App schools?</p>
<p>Colleges will get over it if you don’t have recs online. Print out the Common App recommendation form OR the AppyTexas form (idk what that is) and give it to your teachers to mail in to whatever schools have an app. process different from the Common App. But for Common App schools, add your recommender to the rec list and they’ll send him/her an email with the steps to recommend you via internet. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Your recommender won’t mind copy pasting his/her LOR into the common app form and just printing a copy for the ApplyTexas version.</p>