Change recommendation letter?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>I have a bit of a problem. When I applied to Princeton SCEA, I asked two teachers to write me letters of recommendation and they gladly did. In fact, one of them tailored her letter to Princeton specifically. Both were submitted online.</p>

<p>Now, I am applying to places Regular Decision. However, apparently the teachers can't edit their letters, even though one specifically mentions Princeton. What should I do?</p>

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<p>bump. thoughts?</p>

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<p>The teachers are correct … it they submitted their recommendation letter online, they can’t change that online letter. The easiest answer for you for the rest of your applications is to select a new different teacher for future schools that you want to apply. It sounds like you can re-use the other teachers letter for the rest of your applications, and if you need an add’l recommendation for other schools, ask a 3rd teacher, which you can then select for the schools that need 2. </p>

<p>The alternative is to still use that teacher’s recommendation and hope that other schools are too offended that they were not your first choice.</p>

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Why would I choose a different teacher? These are two of my favorite teachers and I don’t see why I should sabotge my chances by potentially submitting a worse recommendation letter just due to a problem with the Common Application.</p>

<p>Isn’t there any other way around this? I don’t understand why the schools and Comon Application would have this rigid insistence that the same letter is used for all schools.</p>

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<p>You shouldn’t change your teacher! You can make a new version of your Common App and re-add your teacher, OR - use your old common app, and click invite official. Then, just re-add your teacher. If CA gives you any bs, add in your teacher’s middle initial to his/her name so it’s “different.” If the worse comes to worse, have your teacher hand-write the rec and mail it in. Let me know if you have any questions! :)</p>

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<p>There are ways around this!</p>

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<p>It depends on whether your teachers uploaded their recommendations via Naviance – if so, she may not be able to change it, but you could “remove” that teacher from all other colleges as a recommender, and then have her mail in a paper recommendation.</p>

<p>If your school does not use Naviance, then it’s probably simpler, as in Post #5</p>

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Thanks for the idea! I did just that, using a forwarding email address I set up so CA would think it’s two different people.</p>

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<p>You’re welcome! Glad it worked out for you. :)</p>

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<p>Oh, and I think you’ll find this thread useful too:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/common-application/1242323-creating-second-version-commonapp.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/common-application/1242323-creating-second-version-commonapp.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;