<p>Can teachers who do online recommendations on CommonApp make CHANGES to the application (ie. those "rating buttons") after they've already submitted it to the common app?</p>
<p>(I haven't submitted my account yet, so universities can't see my teacher's rec yet. But could the teacher still take it back and edit it?)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, I believe they can. You should look up under directions or the “help section”. </p>
<p>Also, ask the teacher if she/he can slightly change their name, like add a middle initial. Then, when you select the teacher recs, you’ll want to choose that revised name.</p>
<p>I’m not sure where you are in the process, but schools can download your teacher recs right away when they are submitted to the common app site. I have one school that did that already even though I haven’t submitted the rest of my app there. You can see whether this happened in your common app account. I don’t know for sure whether a teacher has any ability to change after they submit their rec, but I suspect not - they probalby have to hit a final “submit” button just like we eventually do, where they acknowledge there will be no more changes.</p>
<p>Hey yeah…i found on the common app page that teachers can’t “unsubmit/change” the evaluation once submitted. But i also heard that colleges don’t get to see the evaluations until I submit mine?</p>
<p>No I think the colleges can see them as soon as the teachers submit them</p>
<p>jwbusername: Schools can download the recs whenever the teacher submits them right away. I definitely have one rec that has already been downloaded by one of my schools even though I didn’t submit the rest of the app yet. I can see this in the status on my common app account.</p>
<p>There’s some misinformation in these posts. Here’s the scoop:</p>
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<li><p>Teachers and counselors CANNOT change a recommendation form once it has been submitted–nor, for that matter, can students.</p></li>
<li><p>A college cannot download a submitted school form until the applicant submits a Common App Online TO THAT COLLEGE. One caveat: Some colleges may choose to access school forms if the applicant has submitted the supplement but not the app.</p></li>
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<p>^That makes sense. Thanks for clearing things up</p>
<p>so WinstonWolfe, how is it that I have one common app pending where I have not yet submitted the essay or activities or any of that, but my common app account shows that the school has downloaded ONE of my two teacher recs?</p>
<p>^Have you submitted the supplement to that school?</p>
<p>Yes, they have a really easy supp and I did that early</p>
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<p>^That’s why they could download them without you submitting the actual common app. Not sure why they would only do one though. Maybe they only require one?</p>
<p>The other teacher has been invited but hasn’t submitted his rec. I have an interview with the adcom this week, so maybe she wanted to pull everything she can in advance of that.</p>
<p>Thanks, that explains it, at least for me.</p>