<p>i was just thinking today, and i just realized that i might not have put enough postage on my teacher's envelope (i might have put 1, not 2)...she sent me an email on Nov. 26th, letting me know she was mailing it that day, and i realize that the deadline was Dec. 15th.<br>
did it get mailed back to her if there wasn't enough postage?
and if it did get mailed back to her, but she didn't send it by the 15th, will i be penalized?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>sunnex, don't worry about it. Stanford will notify you if the envelope never arrived. This happened to my DD during the SCEA round and they e-mailed her to let her know that it was missing. She was able to fax a copy of the missing item.</p>
<p>so like even in february when they confirm our applications, i have a chance to resend in the recommendations right? for counselors and teacher recs?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>The only thing that was missing from my DD's file was a teacher rec that never made it there (we even had a certified mail receipt for the letter and when we tracked it on the USPS web site, it indicated that the envelope never made it to Stanford). Again, what Stanford did was to e-mail her to let her know that there was a missing rec, and she simply asked her teacher to fax a copy of the rec to Stanford. To answer your question, yes, you will have a chance to resend the missing item(s). By the way, and to put you at ease, even though we had this problem, my DD was accepted to Stanford (SCEA).</p>
<p>Not to worry, Stanford will notify you of any missing documents and you will have more than enough time to fax these documents over.</p>
<p>For my case, my GC's entire envelope did not reach Stanford, so documents like the transcripts, school report and testimonial did not reach Stanford at all. Still, I requested the admissions office to wait for 1 week after the SCEA deadline because international mail typically takes 2 weeks and I sent my envelope 1 week before the SCEA deadline. When the envelope eventually did not reach, I got my GC to fax everything over. Heck, Stanford didn't even receive my SAT 1 and 2 score electronically (despite me including Stanford as a score recipient twice!) and I had to fax the hard copies of the score reports.</p>