<p>Wait, so if the teacher rec forms DON'T have the common app ID on them, is this a huge problem? My teachers have already completed these forms, and I'd rather not go through the annoyance (for them) of having them repeat it...Can I just write the ID in, or leave it alone?</p>
<p>I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, but the "search" function isn't working on my computer right now (super...slow...)</p>
<p>ok so for clarification, if the teachers want to do it online, do I have to invite them separately for each school, or do I invite them for one school and then the info will transfer to all the other schools i am applying to? And then with the paper forms, I understand they do it once, make copies, and then send it off to all the colleges I am applying to?</p>
<p>I do NOT want to invite my teacher to do it online. I just want to print out my rec's with my ID on the bottom (like Stanford wants..). Can anyone help me do this? I go to the PDF where the ID is on the bottom but when I print it doesn't print the ID on the bottom! Help =[</p>
<p>you have to log in, and invite teachers WITHOUT WRITING THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS when it asks. Then you can go and print off the teacher evaluations with the ID on the bottom.</p>
<p>I know this is a different question but how would one know if the college has actually received the rec from the teacher???</p>
<p>Some schools post it on their websites. You could also call, but they may find that annoying...</p>
<p>you have to log in, and invite teachers WITHOUT WRITING THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS when it asks. Then you can go and print off the teacher evaluations with the ID on the bottom.</p>
<p>I've already done this.................</p>
<p>I can SEE the pdf WITH my name and ID number on the bottom but when I try to print it it DOESN'T print with the ID number........</p>
<p>Can you submit the Common App without putting in the teacher emails (ie, doing it offline)? Has anyone done this?</p>
<p>One of my classmates was complaining about not being able to submit without sending her teachers the invites.</p>
<p>Will someone please answer my question? I'm getting nervous.</p>
<p>It may depend on the school roflc0pter. I just tried to submit an application without a teacher rec (online of course) and it wouldn't let me. I just sent an invite to the teacher so i could submit it. If it won't let you submit, you just need to invite a teacher and they don't even have to start the rec online, you just need a teacher in that slot if that makes sense. Also, this whole online business with common app is more of a hassle lol. None of my teachers seem to get the rec email from common app, spam or otherwise, ugh...</p>
<p>Ok this common application thing is VERY confusing. I click on school forms, and it says 3 of my schools don't require a teacher recommendation. But what the heck, I want to send recommendations! When my teachers receive their email from CommonApp, does it give them the option to send letters to ALL my schools, even though I couldn't assign them to the individual schools? Please help!</p>
<p>It does not give them any option to send to any schools.
They fill out the recommendation for the commonapp itself and submit it to the commonapp.
Then you specifically choose which schools gets which recs by assigning the recs to each individual school. For me, Emory did not require any, although I was Emory scholars, but if it doesn't require then the only way to send it is through mail.</p>
<p>I've read the "all paper" or "all online" argument the common app. proposes, but if my transcript is being mailed in anyways, couldn't I simply place my two written recommendations and counselor evaluation in the envelope as well?</p>
<p>The way I read it, you can still use paper for teacher and counselor forms and do the only, you just have to do all parts of the actual app online. I hope that's right, because that's they way I'm doing it. The only thing in paper is my counselor for, I think the teacher opted electronic.</p>
<p>taken directly from the common app website: The Common App ID will not appear on paper forms retrieved from the "Downloadable Forms" section of the Common App website. However, the schools will still accept the school forms.</p>
<p>How can I send 2 online recs to a school which only requires 1 rec? Most of my schools require 2 but Rice and Carnegie Mellon require only 1... My teachers finished it in September but now that I'm applying, it's getting messy :(</p>
<p>Wow. Why can't the Common App handle the simplest of situations? "You can only submit one recommendation online. The other one will have to be submitted via mail." Is the reply I got. Now I have to get my teacher to complete 2 recs on monday and mail them off the same day?? This is horrible.. truly horrible :'(</p>
<p>How to print out Teacher Evaluation (TE) forms with the friggin’ Common App ID at the bottom</p>
<hr>
<ol>
<li><p>Log in to your Common Application.</p></li>
<li><p>In the left-hand side bar, click “School Forms.”</p></li>
<li><p>In the area titled “Recommenders” click “Invite Official.”</p></li>
<li><p>Pick a fictitious character (your favorite Disney Character, US president, anyone; it doesn’t matter … you’ll delete this “School Official” later, anyway) to be a temporary recommender of yours. Select the radio button for “Teacher” and then fill in the Title, First Name, Last Name fields – BUT NOT THE EMAIL FIELD!!! – with this character’s info.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>VERY EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Do NOT fill in the email field for this fictitious “School Official.” THE EMAIL FIELD MUST BE LEFT BLANK!!</p>
<p>This way, the Common App program assumes this new “teacher” recommender will be filling out your letter of recommendation offline, and so it therefore deigns to allow you to print out the Teacher Evaluation form with student info fields already populated and the student’s Common App ID number at the bottom of each page.</p>
<p>AND … at the bottom of the page where you input the info on your fictitious school official, don’t forget to select something in the pull-down menu next to “Subject Area” in the “Teachers Only” section (math, foreign language, etc.).</p>
<p>Finally, click “Send Invitation.”</p>
<ol>
<li><p>After being sent back to the “School Forms” page, go to the bottom and click “Save.”</p></li>
<li><p>Next, go to the bottom of the page and click “Add Recommendation.”</p></li>
<li><p>Near the bottom, where it says “Teacher | Select the …” go ahead and select the new teacher you just added as a School Official from the drop-down menu.</p></li>
<li><p>Click “Save” at the very bottom of the page.</p></li>
<li><p>Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for: in the section titled according to your new “teacher” recommender’s name, click the bold-faced link: “Teacher Evaluation Form.”</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Voila! Eureka – You’ve Found It!</p>
<p>The Teacher Evaluation (TE) form with populated student info fields and the student’s Common App ID at the bottom of each page is presented to you as a pdf file.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>You can just print the file now, if you’d like, or you might want to save this pdf file to your hard drive, just in case, so you can print it again whenever you’d like.</p></li>
<li><p>Now, remove your fake “teacher” recommender by clicking the “Remove” link at the far right of the fake recommender’s name.</p></li>
<li><p>Finally, while still in the “School Forms” section of your Common Application, delete your fake “teacher” recommender by clicking the “Delete” link located to the far right of the fake “teacher” recommender’s name.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>THE END.</p>
<p>(Now, go to college.)</p>
<p>Huge issue-
My teacher wrote the name of my early decision school in my application. That’s right. The early decision school I got deferred from. And of course, I find this out now… What can I do? She can’t edit it, so will she have to send in her rec. on paper? Will I just have to get another teacher to do a new rec? It’s my best rec and I really don’t want to lose it. What can I do!!!</p>