<p>How to upload reports and rec letters ?</p>
<p>So irresponsible Common App admins</p>
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<p>@UzMnemonic - in the process of the common app- you should have had a place where it asked you for your recommenders names/emails. Then the common app contacts them and asks them to submit. I am a HS teacher, and have submitted 15 apps for seniors this year through common app, I have only had one student need a “paper copy”, and I would never give a student an electronic copy of my letter to submit.</p>
<p>@toowonderful - Thank you very much ! my confused is cured 
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<p>@toowonderful - When will CommonApp going to contact with my teachers? After I submit application? or It doesn’t matter?</p>
<p>Done. they started </p>
<p>@UzMnemonic - happy to help!!</p>
<p>@toowonderful - Thank you very much ! :)</p>
how do you resend the notification to teachers writing your letter of rec? one of my teachers hasn’t gotten the emails yet, and I need to resend him the email with the notification and the page needed to submit the letteer
Just a little confused… Are LoRs submitted online or through paper mail by teachers? Because if it’s the latter I think I’ll follow the above advise of providing envelopes and such.
@Hringhorni - as with everything else- it depends on the school. Some are common app (in which case your kid attaches name to app and common app provides link to teacher), some schools do it through a portal, (which usually works in similar fashion to common app- teacher gets a link), and some are old fashioned envelopes.
I am a HS teacher and end up doing multiple submissions for my rec students. Btw- if your kid is a rising senior, and they already know whom they would like to write Recs- I strongly recommend they contact teacher over summer (most of us still check our school emails over summer) to get a “spot”. Lots of teachers (like me) are deluged with requests in fall- and there are only a certain number you can do. Last year I did 15…
D’s recommenders gave her LORs in sealed envelopes (signed over the seal), provided her with original copies that were both hard copy and in email attachments, and also knew that they would get online links from many schools. My D felt embarrassed because she thought it was so much, but they were used to it (except one college prof who’d never done one for a high school student). It is a lot! We were glad to have them in all forms, though; all forms did get used. (She kept the copies in her file box which went with her everywhere, saved the email attachments to her computer, and put them on a USB drive that went in her file box.)
Yes, she provided envelopes and paper, saying that if they had professional letterhead and envelopes that they’d like to use, that’d be fine, but they were also welcome to use what she provided. (They all used their professional stuff.)
There are some things (scholarships come to my mind) that require you use their paper/envelope etc. Often students need things submitted more than one way- and as long as student communicates needs it’s no big deal
Some schools are asking for two or three additional theater-specific LORs to be snail mailed. Does D ask the teachers and then snail mail them together as a packet when they are all done? Or is that something the counseling office should be able to do for her? At her school, each counselor has about 35 kids.
Also should the common app recommender(s) be academic teachers & guidance counselor?
My D used academic teachers for common app, and also had artistic recs (hardcopy if I am remembering) for schools that wanted them. Many/most public school HS teachers (at least the ones I know in both my school and my kid’s) have common app accounts (or can get it easily through the school) -I wonder if harder for outside person - no idea as we didn’t try it that way.
@toowonderful Thanks. It’ll be easier to get the academic teacher recs.
Once we have her list of schools, she can ask three theater recommenders for “x” number of copies of their sealed LOR’s for D to mail to the appropriate schools. I don’t want to entrust the teachers to mail them themselves, because one recommender (the most important one) is particularly unreliable. Does that sound reasonable?
I would have zero problem if a kid asked my for that
Btw- teachers really appreciate a thank you note after writing recs- doesn’t have to be a big thing, just nice to feel acknowledged
Thanks for the advice about the thank you!