Can I Get a Principal to Fill Out my Counselor Recommendation Form?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm applying to the ivy leagues, primarily Penn and Harvard.</p>

<p>For the Counselor Recommendation form, can I get my Principal to fill that out for me? Because the guidance counselors don't really know me that well, whereas the principal does.</p>

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<p>yeah, that’s not a problem. my vice principal is filling that out for me.</p>

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<p>@redhuntinghat You may be correct. But this rule doesn’t apply to me because I don’t have official counselor.</p>

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<p>Clearly, nobody in this thread has tried looking at the directions on the form: <a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013SchoolReport_download.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013SchoolReport_download.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>They say, “…give this form to your secondary school counselor or another school official who knows you better.”</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies. @Sikorsky I know what the form says - it’s just that on the colleges’ websites they said “counselor to fill it out”, so I wasn’t sure about the discrepancy.
Anyways, I called a couple of colleges, and they said that the principal can fill out half of it and guidance can fill out the other half.</p>

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<p>You really thought that colleges might accept the Common Application, but not the instructions that are printed on it? Wouldn’t that be absolutely perverse on their part?</p>

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<p>@Sikorsky. You’re right, my bad. Sorry about that.</p>