<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>After filling out most of the common app and getting teacher recommendations, I asked my guidance counselor to fill out the common app forms for me. However, she said she could not access/complete the forms online, and wanted me to print out forms so we can mail them to the schools. Yet the common app has gone completely electronic, and there simply aren't available forms for the recommendation. I also hesitate to send some forms online and some over mail.</p>
<p>How does one complete the common app if a counselor can't use the online version? Is sending forms separately a bad thing to do, and if not, which forms do I use? Additionally, would colleges not accept the recommendation unless I already submitted the application?</p>
<p>It would be extremely helpful if someone familiar with this year's process could shed some light on this troubling situation, due to changes in the past year. I spent a lot of time on the online version, and would be devastated if I had to start over or rush to complete essays before the mailing period.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I honestly have no idea but I am having problems with the counselor rec part of Common App. I invited my counselor multiple times, she tried 3 times today as well, but my name won’t appear under her list so she can’t even send my electronic transcripts. We get off for a break Friday so I need Common App to get their stuff together as I’m trying to apply to 3 colleges through there. It’s honestly very frustrating.</p>
<p>You CANNOT have some forms sent online with others sent by mail. Your counselor has to choose one or the other. So, if your counselor has started submitted something online, s/he needs to continue online. (In fact, there are penalties if s/he doesn’t.)</p>
<p>If s/he wants to post but cant… What happened, most likely:
When you invited your counselor, s/he got an email of “invitation”. There were two links in it. Both links looked very similar and were very close on the page. Except one was to enter CommonApp and start uploading stuff, and the other was to opt out and do everything by mail.
if your counselor is willing to upload everything (meaning it’d save him/her tons of work: it’s uploaded once for all the schools rather than having to send each school packet separately) have him/her contact the help center and request for another invitation to be sent. And this time s/he should be super careful about the link s/he clicks on!</p>