<p>So I am using the Common App for some of my schools, but not all of them. Do I need to use the teacher evaluation form on the Common App for these schools, or can I just send them copies of my teacher letters of recs.?</p>
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<p>Schools that don’t use the common app sometimes have their own recommendation forms on their websites. Start there. </p>
<p>If there is no form provided by a school that doesn’t use the common app, it is OK to use a print out of the common app form. Or not. Your choice. If you don’t use a form, be sure the teacher includes your full name, high school, date of birth and possibly even your home address so the school can match the recommendation to your application when it arrives. </p>
<p>In any event, you should not be mailing teacher recs yourself. They should be sent in signed sealed envelopes addressed to the admissions office of each school.</p>
<p>So is the evaluation form unnecessary and can I simply have my school mail the college the letter of rec even if I am applying using the Common App for that college?</p>
<p>no. Your teachers must use the common app form. they can attach to the form a separate recommendation they write (or wrote) and many do this. </p>
<p>If you are using the common app, you will create an online account, waive your rights to see recommendations, add teachers’ names and email addresses, and select teachers for each school, all through your online account. </p>
<p>The teachers will then immediately get emails from the common app website inviting them to recommend you. If any teacher prefers not to submit recs online, he or she has that choice even though your app is being submitted online, but the common app recommendation form must still be used. </p>
<p>If the teacher has a rec that he/she wrote for you that is not on the common app form, they attach it (either electronically or on paper) to the common app form itself.</p>
<p>niceday is right on.
I’d like to add that if your school uses Naviance, your process might be different. Please clarify the process with your guidance counselor.</p>