I am in the process of starting my Common Application and I have a question about the process for submitting letters of recommendation.
I am going to be applying to 6 or 7 schools that require 1 to 3 recs, with most of them demanding a minimum of 2. My plan is to list the same 2 teachers as my ‘recommenders’ for all of the schools I plan on applying to.
This is the part I am confused by:
When I invite my teachers they will be contacted by the Common Application via email to write a letter, and for however many schools I have them invited to their letters will be added to my application. It is not like they will be prompted to write a ‘school specific’ letter for every institution I have them listed for?
Is this correct?
I know that this is a little issue. However, this process is new to me so even the most simple tasks seem confusing.
The teachers may “reuse” the letters, to the best of my knowledge. They will just make it school specific by changing the name of the school and perhaps some information that is not applicable to every school.
Colleges are fully aware that teachers will write a single rec letter to be used across the full spectrum of colleges and scholarship programs. This isn’t a bad question – but it’s not a concern whatsoever.
The teacher will upload ONE rec letter (not changing it to make it school specific) and then you’ll direct the letters to whatever colleges you wish.
I tested the ‘Invite Recommender’ function because I had the same question. The recommendation is not school-specific, so when the teacher uploads the rec. letter, you have to ‘assign’ the teacher’s rec to each college.