Hi, my son school is using Naviance to send out teacher recommendation letters. His two recommender teachers one is on the Naviance teacher list and one is not. The one is not on the list is the teacher who will mail out the letter.
Now my son is ready to send out common application to one of the college that required 2 teachers and common app only recognize one teacher from Naviance. Does anyone encounter this problem before?
My son just emailed the counselor and he will see her first thing Monday. If anyone has this problem before or know how to resolve … I appreciate the input because EA deadline is 11/1.
Thanks
The common app is linked to Naviance, so if the rec was requested outside of Naviance and the Common App, the status will not show in the Common App. It **may/b show in the college’s applicant portal. If your son knows the teacher mailed it and wants to be sure it’s in the file, he can email the college.
I’m told that in the olden days, before the magma cooled and dinosaurs roamed the earth, everything was on paper with no way to track, and yet admissions still got processed.
If the college is missing something, they will let him know. Good luck.
The issue is my son is not allowed to submit his common application because on common app the school recommendation required is two and common app only sees one.
We can definitely email the college admission officer because of the mail in.
Right now my concern is how can we submit the common application?
I believe this is the issue we need to speak with the school counselor.
Systemically, your son’s part of the Common Application can absolutely be sent before any of the recs. In fact, I would guess that most applicants send in their part first.
Another way to handle it might be to see if the second teacher that is not on the Naviance list can send the recommendation to the GC and have the GC upload it onto the Common App. If there are a lot of schools, this might be preferable to having a teacher send them all out individually.
Otherwise, if the teacher is going to be responsible for mailing hardcopies of letters, the student should provide stamped, addressed envelopes and fill out whatever generic or identifying information can be filled out on whatever forms are provided by each school.
If schools allow teachers to upload or email PDFs, the student should provide the links to the teacher.
@skieurope - Back when we dinosaurs roamed the earth, students only applied to 2 or 3 schools and even the most prestigious schools only received a couple of thousand applications. Both of these numbers seem to have increased by an order of magnitude.