<p>I'm a little confused about this process. So I know you have to invite them on the common app and then they get an email or something right? But when they are finished writing it and send the recommendation letter following the email instructions does it go to my common app account and then I can select which schools to select it to send to? Or am I completely wrong about everything.</p>
<p>I believe that’s how it works…</p>
<p>When you click on the college you want to work on in the my colleges tab you go to the school forms tab and then you have to assign the teacher to that university (it’s the box after the recommenders thing). If you don’t they won’t be able to write anything for you. If you waived your rights to the recommendation you will never see the recommendation but if you did you should be able to see it.</p>
<p>Do you assign the teacher before they write/upload the letter or after they do that?</p>
<p>First, it is customary to waive your rights to see the rec so that your teacher can really write and unbiased one, so waive them. </p>
<p>Second, you can “invite” the teacher as soon as you know who you want. They get an email. They access your common app through the email. They upload their rec. They probably should print it before they send it so they have a paper copy to also send to your non common app schools. (Our HS requires all teachers give the counselor a copy of their rec and the counselor mails it for them with transcript info to the non common app schools)</p>
<p>Third, you assign teachers as you go in and fill out the common ap for the schools you are interested in. Then is when you assign the teacher in each school’s separate app. Some schools only let you assign 2 teachers. Others more. Each school does it slightly differently from each other so read, review everything carefully.</p>
<p>Do the teachers see which schools they’re assigned to on common app?</p>
<p>No. Read my post on your other thread sorange12.</p>
<p>Does this work the same way for an outside rec such a a trainer or private coach?</p>
<p>I don’t think so, you will have to email the common app. The common app wants teacher and counselor recs. If a school only wants 2 teacher recs, you do not want to take one slot for a trainer. The trainer rec is extra so probably could be mailed. Call the schools your child is applying to. I do not think the common app has a way to upload recs from additional people.</p>
<p>@lakemom or anyone else: Is it ok if I invite my teachers and they send the recommendation letter before I finish the common app?</p>
<p>Yes, that’s fine. The recs can be sitting there waiting in the common app until you actually send in your application. Once you assign to each school which teacher recs you want to go then you will see that the school will upload the teacher rec and you will see the date they have uploaded next to the teachers name in that schools common ap. </p>
<p>The schools keep, I guess, a started file on each student waiting for the rest of the info to arrive. Sometimes students send their supplement first so just that sits there waiting. Others have their teacher recs go ahead. </p>
<p>If you decide to not apply to the school the recs just sit there waiting until the filing deadline and at some point get discarded if no application/transcript/counselor rec come though it would be more polite to let a school know if you do not plan to send them an application.</p>
<p>If the school is not on common app…do you need to send the link for rec directly to the teacher or do they also access that through Naviance?</p>
<p>Naviance is a different thing altogether. Each school can turn on and turn off different features of Naviance so you have to ask your counselor.</p>
<p>At our HS, they turned off the need for teachers to send recs for the common ap through Naviance so they could send them directly to the common ap. My son only applied to common app schools. I don’t know if Naviance is hooked up in some way to non common app ones.</p>