<p>My son was partially homeschooled and he/I requested a couple of recommendations from the homeschool portion. One of the recommenders just sent me a pdf. The other asked whether she should send one copy or many and whether they should be in sealed envelopes. So, we could pretend that we haven't seen them, but in fact, they are sharing the recommendations with us.</p>
<p>Those of you who homeschooled: What did you do?</p>
<p>My dd only applied to one college and they only wanted one recommendation. She asked her Tae Kwon Do instructor to write a recommendation for her and we gave him the address of the college and he sent the recommendation directly to the school, in a sealed envelope, so we didn't read it. </p>
<p>You could check with the college and ask if there's a certain way they want to receive recommendation letters.</p>
<p>The colleges don't care whether you've seen them or not as long as the recommender had the option not to show you. Most colleges want the recommender to send in the recommendation themselves. We provided our recommenders with pre-addressed stamped envelopes to make it easy for them.</p>
<p>We have heard that it's best to check and sign the spot where you waive your rights to see the recommendations. Son did this on the common app teacher form, scanned it in, and sent it to those teachers who were writing letters. Some did send their letters for him to see, but we still asked that they send them directly to the colleges themselves. We also requested that letters be written on some kind of letterhead; one college asked dd for this last year.</p>