<p>My counselor had reffered to my ED school all over the rec letter. After i submitted the application is there any way he or I can withdraw the letter to make amendment? I don t want my RD schools to read this! Is there anything i can do?</p>
<p>PS: I have emailed the bloody commonapp and they said my counselor had to contact each school for correction!</p>
<p>Is there another way out???</p>
<p>Well, if you submitted and paid for multiple schools to receive your common app, it went electronically and each school has it. By ‘counselor’ I’m guessing you mean your school counselor. Why he/she would put the name of one school in a rec letter is quite odd if the standard practice at your school is to attach it to the common app. </p>
<p>How did you come to know what’s in your rec letter? At my son’s school, teachers typically do not share that info with students and high school counselors absolutely do not share that info.</p>
<p>The college received the letter told me rec had reference to other institutions. Then my counselor confessed ><</p>
<p>Thx, but is there a solution?</p>
<p>Okay, here is what I would do. </p>
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<li> MOVE QUICKLY. Get with your counselor TODAY and find out whether she has a personal connection at these RD schools. Heck, I would specifically ask her who that person is (by name).<br></li>
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<p>a. If he/she has a personal/close connection she needs to call in a favor and you should be specfically asking her to reach out directly to these schools and for the counselor to be explaining her mistake and asking that this be swept aside (so to speak). </p>
<p>b. If he/she doesn’t convince you that they have these personal connections, I would strongly suggest calling or email the schools myself. Specifically, contact the regional rep for your area. If there is no regional rep call the school and find out the name and contact info for the admissions officer that was assigned as your first reader. If you can’t get them on the phone, e-mail these people and tell them what happened and express how concerned and upset you are about this. If you have been to their campus mention it … share with them that applying to their school wasn’t some sort of whim but a true INTEREST in their school. Tell them you are truly sorry that this happened and wish to apologize. </p>
<p>The good news is that admissions officers realize that you are applying to many schools and understand that process. But, people are human and backs do stiffen when a peer school shows up in their reading material, even worse if they flat out dislike this peer school. But it would be an odd person that doesn’t cut a kid some big slack when they apologize for something that wasn’t their mistake to begin with. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I have only applied one school using the flattered app and we have already made the communication. This college seemed forgiving on me.</p>
<p>But I still have schools on commonapp to go. I was just wondering what to do next.</p>
<p>Thank you ctyankee. I really appreciate your patience~</p>
<p>“How did you come to know what’s in your rec letter? At my son’s school, teachers typically do not share that info with students and high school counselors absolutely do not share that info.”</p>
<p>At my school we write the recs and the teachers sign it.</p>
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<p>I believe you are from India. There is an international forum for your posts. Posting your comments (without a clear clarifier) here only will confuse U.S. students. </p>
<p>You can’t change your existing common app but you can create a new VERSION. You could then have your counselor submit the generic rep to the new version, if I remember correctly. Then you could submit the new version to your remaining RD schools. It would be quite easy to verify that I’m correct on that.</p>