<p>Do recommendation-teachers know (from their online account / recommendations page) which schools I'm applying to?</p>
<p>Yes they do.</p>
<p>is it based on which colleges I have been added to “my colleges”, or based on which colleges I have matched those teachers with under “school forms”?</p>
<p>what if I wait until the recommendation is completed, and then add my colleges? will they be notified of every college that i match their rec with, after their form is submitted to my account?</p>
<p>(one of my teacher absolutely despises two of the schools im applying to ha…)</p>
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<p>The latter – teachers only see the one’s you’ve invited them to write a recommendation for.</p>
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<p>Not sure how this will work. The forms aren’t being “submitted to your account;” the teachers submit them to the colleges themselves through the Common App using their own account. Since they need to be invited by you to submit for specific colleges, they can’t complete their recommendation online without being the invitation to write a recommendation. And once you invite a teacher to write a recommendation for you for a certain college, the teacher will know what college that is.</p>
<p>hmm ok. i thought it was just one general form that they completed, and then you can subsequently add colleges and match the schools with that teacher, without having the get my teachers to come back and fill in additional forms…</p>
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<p>Yeah, it’s a little different. If you’re doing the recommendations online you add the college first, and then invite your teacher to write the recommendation for that college. A list of the colleges you want recommendations for from that teacher will appear in the teacher’s school form account on the Common App under your name.</p>
<p>To clarify what the page looks like:</p>
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<p>hmm thanks for the link, it’s helpful</p>
<p>it’s just that, I remember seeing a video made by the common app people, and it showed that you can assign recommendations to a particular school after the teacher submitted the form, thus making it seem like you could potentially apply to schools with their recommendation, without them knowing</p>
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<p>I watched the one about school forms here:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/FAQ.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/FAQ.aspx</a></p>
<p>…but didn’t see anything like that. Simply put, if you don’t invite a teacher to write a recommendation for a specific school, the teacher can’t submit their recommendation for that school online.</p>
<p>thank you so much for your help</p>
<p>to clarify: If I have them submit the rec forms online for my colleges by november, BUT add one more college to the common app on, say, December 29th, then my two teachers would have to quickly log back onto commonapp.org, and submit forms for that school (even if it is copy/paste)? I just want to know how “tied-down” I am…</p>
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<p>Wow, good thing I checked on this, because I was wrong and you were right about the assigning of extra recommendations.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/SchoolFormsFAQ.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/SchoolFormsFAQ.aspx</a>
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<p>So while your teachers still needed to be invited online for each of your colleges, and will still have access to the list of all the colleges you invite them to, this is done automatically after they submit the first time, rather than needing them to submit a new recommendation each time you add them to a new college.</p>
<p>Yep, and I to be certain I had messaged Common App Support (before your last post). This was their answer:</p>
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<p>Flyingllama- thanks for the postings. We’re dealing with the same sort of scenario. Do you know if the teachers receive email notifications every time their recs are accessed, or do they only see additional schools if they re-enter the common application site?</p>
<p>kibt - teachers do not receive notification when they are added to a new college by an applicant. They will only see that if they log into their account and view the details for a specific applicant.</p>
<p>Thanks, MacGyver. Do you know if a teacher has a master list of all the students who have requested recommendations on the common app site? I’m wondering if the teacher has to access his/her account several times to complete eveything, will s/he see the new schools listed under my name? Or will s/he only see them if my link is specifically accessed? Does that make sense?</p>
<p>kibt,
Each teacher does have one account through which he or she can access all the forms that need to be completed for students using the Common App Online. They have a page called ‘My Students’ that lists all the students who have requested teacher evaluations from them. If they click on your name they will be able to see the status of their forms for you (not started, in progress, submitted, downloaded) as well as the list of colleges to which you have assigned to them. The teacher will only see the colleges to which you have assigned him or her. For example, let’s say you are applying to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford and request that I provide a teacher evaluation for you. In your app, you ‘assign’ me to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. When I log into my teacher account, I can see those three colleges and their respective deadlines. I cannot see that you are also applying to Stanford. If you later assigned me to Stanford, I would be able to log in and see that if I click on your name on the ‘My Students’ page.</p>
<p>Hope that helps to clarify. Let me know if you need more info.</p>
<p>Thanks, McGyver. Is there any reason a teacher would want to reaccess a student’s information if s/he has already received confirmation from the Common App that the rec has been successfully submitted (to the system)? Does a teacher really care about the deadlines once they finish the original rec? I mean, it’s kind of up the student to make sure the rec actually gets where it needs to…thanks for your patience. I know I’m kind of beating this to death.</p>
<p>kibt,
The best reason I can think of is if the teacher were being really diligent, he or she could continue to monitor the status of their TE to see if the college had downloaded it or not. A teacher may want to do this if they hear from a student that a TE was not received by a college… that might motivate them to check the status of their other TEs as well.</p>
<p>Remember, if you haven’t assigned that teacher to the college, her or she will NOT see that in the list of colleges through the teacher interface.</p>
<p>What happens if I remove a college that I already assigned my teachers there and put the college name in again later? The CommonApp asked me to assign two teachers again. Even though one of my teachers submitted the rec and the status was “submitted” to that college, the college will not be able to see that rec until I send them any supplement/common app right? So it means the college hasn’t got access to that rec yet?</p>
<p>"What happens if I remove a college that I already assigned my teachers there and put the college name in again later? The CommonApp asked me to assign two teachers again. Even though one of my teachers submitted the rec and the status was “submitted” to that college, the college will not be able to see that rec until I send them any supplement/common app right? So it means the college hasn’t got access to that rec yet? "</p>
<p>I have this same question…can someone please answer?</p>
<p>so basically…colleges don’t receive any Rec letters at all…until they receive your application/supplement right</p>