<p>For common app schools? Specifically for UMich, Case Western, George Washington, URochester...</p>
<p>I'll be talking to my counselor on Monday, but if you know, please answer </p>
<p>I have my letters and school report emailed to me and I'd hate to hassle everyone to submit them online</p>
<p>They PREFER online submissions. Your teachers would as well. They upload one rec letter. And you choose which schools receive it. The school report is sent in by your school, not you.</p>
<p>It is irregular to have you send this stuff. Are these letters sealed with a signature across the flap?</p>
<p>The only way to submit by paper/mail through the common app still involves some online work. You have to invite your counselor and recommender through the common app form and they have to go through the “opt out” process to let the common app (and your schools) know they will not be submitting electronically. This is a decision they make once for this whole application season and it applies not only to you but to every student they will be recommending through the common app this year. They “opt out” by clicking a link in an email they will receive when you invite them through your common app account.</p>
<p>Once they opt out, your common app dashboard will change. You will get access to printable versions of the pdf forms your counselor and recommenders need to mail to each of your schools. The printed forms include your name and common app id for verification. There is no way to get these forms otherwise, as far as I can tell. </p>
<p>To help understand the new common app form, we actually went so far as to create a dummy account for practice this year and got locked out of it for a while by trying to log on as a fake teacher invited from the same computer as the fake counselor and the fake student. The common app is apparently onto tricks students might pull to generate their own recommendations.</p>
<p>If your counselor or teacher really does opt out of online submission, your role is simply to print the forms and give stamped addressed envelopes to your counselor/teacher to mail in.</p>
<p>All mailed recommendations and reports need to be sealed and signed across the flap by the appropriate person.</p>
<p>Thanks, guys.</p>