<p>or do I just put the college address in the center of the envelope? also is a 37 cents stamp enough, only 1 teacher reccomendation per envelope right?</p>
<p>As a teacher, I can tell you that all the requests I have received had the college address in the center, and the school's address in the return space. Ask your counselor for a few preprinted school stationery envelopes and address each to the college, and no need for return address because it is preprined on it. This should solve your concerns. One stamp is enough. Be aware that sometimes the recommendation had to be enclosed with the application, transcript, etc., so all I did was take my letter down to the counselor who then put it all together and sent out the package. Check with your counselor as to how your school does it. Our school will not let the student handle official transcripts, and only the counselors can prepare the final mailout.</p>
<p>I agree with the prior poster that it's good to check with your HS on how it handles these things. At our kids' HS, the student has the option of giving the teachers envelopes or just giving them the forms & having everything turned in to the counselor to go out as one packet (which I think is better, so things don't get lost & the counselor can remind the teachers for the recs). The GC sends everything with the transcript & a profile about the school.
We would only use the school's return address, not the student's if we gave envelopes to the teachers. That's how we handled things when we applied to private high schools & needed teacher recs as well.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, I vaguely recall one school asking that the recommendation/evaluation forms not be folded but should be sent in an 8x11 envelope. Just make sure you follow any specific directions the school asks for and be aware that some have preferences.</p>
<p>One stamp may not be enough if it is the guidance counselor's school report (which might also include the school profile, a transcript,etc).</p>
<p>One stamp may also not be enough for the teacher recommendations. I printed out the common application recommendation form which came out to two pages. I then added a third sheet, assuming that the teacher would be attaching a letter. I took this plus the envelopes my daughter was going to use to our post office to be weighed for proper postage and was told that TWO stamps, not one, were needed based on the weight. My daughter later decided to add a postage paid postcard to each envelope for the schools to return when the recommendations arrived. I returned to the post office and discovered that added enough weight that a third stamp would be necessary. I figure, even if the teacher does do her letter on the second page of the form, I'd rather have a little extra postage than a little less.</p>
<p>So, it might be worth checking at the post office using the actual materials you expect will be included instead of just slapping a single stamp on.</p>
<p>One other tip: keep an eye out for the applications from the various schools. Daughter received several postage paid envelopes from the some of the schools that she's given to the teachers to use, even though she's using the common application. Certainly simplifies things a bit.</p>