<p>She says she has submitted the online portion of the common app, but the screen on my end looks exactly the same as it did while she was just "invited" and had not submitted her completed rec. It has been a few days and I'm freaking out a bit. Should I get some sort of notification that my teacher submitted the recommendation successfully? If so, what does it look like? </p>
<p>If I can provide any more details that would be helpful, let me know.</p>
<p>Common App should show ‘Submitted’ Status same day when teacher completes the on-line process. If your HS is using Naviance then there is a whole different process and I have noticed several teachers having problem.</p>
<p>Well, here’s the kicker: I didn’t actually assign the teacher to my schools before she filled it out – now I have assigned her to my colleges, and it says that she “started” it on 10/19. That’s not right (we’ve been talking about it for ages). Does this mean that <em>I</em> screwed up and she just needs to fill it out again, now that I’ve assigned her? Or should it not matter, and should it just say “submitted” if all of the correct info was completed? </p>
<p>Have at it. I know that this is all ridiculously convoluted.</p>
<p>Yes the CA does not mention anywhere you have to assign a teacher to a school in order to see the status of the rec. It should say submitted with the date, if she submitted it. Later when to school retrieves it, it will say downloaded and the date. </p>
<p>Somehow, her rec didn’t move to the submit phase so maybe there is something she was supposed to fill in or click to move it along. Ask her to go into her file and check everything is complete and I guess teachers have a save or submit button like students do. </p>
<p>Otherwise contact the common app via email.</p>
<p>And as Prdparent said, Naviance can screw things up. At our school, they just started using Naviance but they turned off the feature that teacher recs have to go through Naviance so that is also something to find out about.</p>