<p>My school does not have the facility to fill out the Common App online. So they will be doing it on paper, and I will be mailing them to the colleges. Now I can't expect my teachers to fill out 10 teacher evaluations and write 10 LORs - so I've got one of everything from them. Can I send photocopies of these to the different colleges? </p>
<p>Same with the school counselor's stuff.</p>
<p>Photocopies are fine. Check w/the schools. They’ll probably want actual signatures on the LORs and sealed envelopes, however.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t care tbh. It’s the colleges i’m worried about. Will they accept photocopied LORs (with a school letterhead on them)? I can get sealed envelopes from the school, that’s not an issue.</p>
<p>Colleges are very cognizant that students apply to multiple schools and need to/should re-use LORs. Photocopies are perfectly fine.</p>
<p>I am somewhat surprised that you are mailing these things. That’s highly unusual. It’s usually the teachers and/or the school that mail them. The student can provide the teachers and school with pre-addressed envelopes, with proper postage already on them.</p>
<p>@sikorsky im an international. and a very less(read:zero) percentage of students of our school apply to US colleges. seems ill have to break the ice. as a result, my school doesnt give a damn. also my teachers dont know anything about these at all. ill have to make my own transcript. they agreed to put the seal on it. and they agreed to write the recos. and ill have to send the parcels myself. the school flatly stated that they wont do anything so stupid as sending parcels to US universities:D and ill use the common apps. takes some burden off me.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you on overcoming that hurdle akashdip. Can I suggest the following?</p>
<p>[Writing</a> Recommendations | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/writingrecs]Writing”>How to write good letters of recommendation | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>It will help your rec letter writers. Inexperienced rec letter writers tend to say “he/she is a good person, has great character, works hard”. If you read the info contained in the above article, you’ll see that what’s of value to top school admissions are actual anecdotes – and not simple platitudes about the person’s “character”.</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help T26E4. Appreciate it.</p>
<p>@T26E4 ooooooooohh thank you, thank you very much. ill definitely make it a point to show it to my GC before doing anything at school tomorrow. thank you again.:):):):):)</p>
<p>When you have all of your application documents organized for each college/university, you can put them together into one large envelope for each place that you are sending them to. This is OK. Lots of international students do this every year. If your national postal service isn’t reliable, it is OK to send each package by DHL, FedEx, or another courier service. </p>
<p>You can photocopy the recommendation letters, and then ask the teachers to sign each of them so that there is an original signature. Use a pen with blue ink for the signature so that it is clear that it is an original signature. Then put each letter in an individual letter-sized envelope, and have the teacher sign across the seal of the envelope so that it is clear the letter has not been tampered with.</p>