<p>I'm applying to 6 colleges through the common app and need to know how the recommendations work. I submitted my teachers to the recommendation page. What do they do? Do they get an email to fill out a questionnaire? Do they copy and paste my previous physical LOR to the website and submit that? I feel bad if they have to go through the process 6 times. Please explain what they do!</p>
<p>the teachers do get an email- and it will update you when they have completed it. They fill out ONE recommendation and submit it to the common app in general, so any college on that (and added in the future) will get that recommendation as long as you press the teacher under each application</p>
<p>The email goes out from the common app to your teachers immediately when you invite them through the common pp, so be sure to talk with them first to ask them to give you a recommendation. They have the option once the email arrives to submit a recommendation online or by mail. Online is most teachers’ preference, but there is an option to submit recs by mail. If any of your recommenders chooses to mail-in, you will get a notification on your common app account. Again, it’s better to know beforehand what they will choose. So ask that question when you ask them to give you a recommendation.</p>
<p>I believe my daughter’s school doesn’t upload the recommendations. Instead they mail them. I agree with niceday, it is best to ask beforehand to avoid confusion. Every school handles it differently. Good luck!</p>
<p>Looking back now at the wording on the common app what you are all saying makes sense.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>There’s a “assign recommenders” section. You can invite as many as you like, and they will each write ONE recommendation, but you can choose not to assign some of them, they’ll never know. You just have to assign them to a particular college.</p>
<p>Will the same rec from the same teacher be sent to all the colleges you apply to through the common app?</p>
<p>You have full control to pick and choose which teacher recs are (or are not) sent to each of your schools on a school-by-school basis.</p>
<p>I know that you get to select which teacher’s recs you want to each individual college but, correct me if I’m wrong, you do not actually see what each of them wrote, do you?</p>
<p>That’s correct. Regardless of what you select in the the FERPA waiver portion of the application, the common app site does not allow you to directly see any of your recommendations.</p>
<p>Also, the assign recommenders part is SO STUPID. I just spent several days going back and forth with tech support until I figured this out on my own.
If you invited a teacher to be a recommender on the “manage recommender” page, you also have to assign them to a school. Here’s what to do:
On your dashboard, click on the “assign recommenders” tab. When that page opens, do not click on manage recommenders as you might think, but look at the bottom of the page for a button that says “Add another.”
Click on “add another.”<br>
A box opens up that allows you to assign any of the teachers you have invited to that particular school.
Select a teacher and click assign. (the box actually has nothing to do with adding and is the assign button!!)</p>
<p>“manage recommender” is not for teachers. It is for additional people such as coaches, boss, clergy…</p>
<p>Is there any way to tell if na invited teacher has actually submitted a recommendation?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>You can usually check the application status from the portal to see if the recommendation is submitted.
I just checked the school list on my D’s common app. I found some schools actually accept up to 3 or 4 teachers’ recommendations. It is good that my D has asked more than 2 teachers for recommendations.</p>
<p>I’ll try my question again</p>
<p>My daughter added one of her teachers as a Recommender. He received the invite from the Common App, but he has been unable to log in. Does anyone know what the problem might be…</p>
<p>Thanks</p>