<p>My DS has been working on the Common App. He is confused about the teacher recommendation. He had gone to each college's website and printed the teacher recommendation form off before being told by his guidance dept. that if a school is a common app school, you must apply using common app. Common App has its own teacher recommendation form and it is SLIGHTLY different from the one from the school website. Should he have his teachers do both or just the common app one? </p>
<p>If the answer is only the common app recommendation, should he print that out for them to fill out a paper copy and give them the stamped mailing envelope? From reading on here I see that they can fill out electronically, but how do they do that?</p>
<p>If he is doing the actual application via the Common App, then his recs should also be Common App. Even if the school-specific rec forms are different, if they are a member of the Common App, then they obviously have no problem with the Common App forms. If they really want to know about something not on the Common App forms, they will probably put it as a question in their Common App supplement.</p>
<p>I would have him ask the teachers which they would prefer. A lot of teachers still prefer to do recs by hand. To do the recs online though, have him log in to his Common App account (if he’s submitting the application via mail then he probably doesn’t have one and therefore should probably just submit the recs via mail) and go to the school forms section.</p>