<p>Ok, </p>
<p>I have filled up the common app except for the teacher evaluation, secondary school report, midyear report & final report. And I have filled up the international supplements. (Didn't start the essays yet)</p>
<p>(When the school re opens), I am going to give the recommendation forms to my teachers along with the stamped manila envelopes to mail them.</p>
<p>But should I also give the school the essays and international supplements or should I mail them myself?</p>
<p>And, is it a problem if I take the recommendations and the school report and then mail them to the colleges myself?</p>
<p>You should mail your essays and additional supplements, not your school. It’s safer that way since guidance offices tend to lose thing sometimes.</p>
<p>You can mail the recommendations and schools reports yourself, just make sure that the correct individuals fill them out and sign where needed.</p>
<p>thanks. But just to be sure,
*I should take back the recommendations & school reports from the teachers after they are filled?
*and then mail them to the respective colleges in one envelope (a separate one for each college)?</p>
<p>You don’t mail the official transcripts or the recommendations; the school college counselor does.</p>
<p>Ok, now I am in a mess.
Two people, two different suggestions?</p>
<p>Btw,</p>
<p>If it helps, I am an international student. So, I was thinking it would be better if I mailed it myself, because I really don’t trust my school with this.</p>
<p>Let me start over.</p>
<p>School transcripts and recommendation letters are to be mailed in a sealed envelope, stamped as confidential, to ensure they have not been tampered with. You, as the student, are under no circumstances, allowed to submit school transcripts on your own as they are official documents only to be sent from one institution to another. Seeing as recommendation letters are confidential too (assuming you aren’t reading them) it’s best to have the school send those out too.</p>
<p>For everything you’ve written yourself, you can send that out on your own.</p>
<p>Make sense?</p>
<p>As an international, are you allowed to fax documents over? Meaning essays and such. </p>
<p>Mailing to a different country can be tricky business (as well as costly).</p>
<p>@miss_murd3r:</p>
<p>mailing from a different country is tricky and that’s why I don’t trust my school with it.</p>
<p>I am applying to 18 colleges and so are many of my friends. And our counselor isn’t the kind of a person who actually cares much about some selective students (which includes me. I know its a stupid reason)</p>
<p>That’s why I am worried that my application won’t be sorted properly and won’t be mailed properly</p>
<p>Good grounds for being worried. I thought you were a domestic student, so I was wondering why you would even consider mailing it yourself.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how it would work in your respective country. Definitely call (or email) the schools you are applying to and ask them if you can send it yourself.</p>
<p>For the recommendations, I don’t see a problem with you mailing it if it is in a sealed envelope and stamped where the flap is, to ensure it has not been opened. Not too sure how the transcript would work, seeing as how those are transfered from institution to institution. Reach out to other internationals and see what they did.</p>
<p>Hope I helped.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help</p>
<p>I guess I would contact some of my school’s alumni. Some of them have got into US colleges, so they should know well about it.</p>
<p>You’re welcome. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m sorry if it seems as if I’m hijacking your thread OP, but I’m almost in the same boat as you. Except I’m in the US.</p>
<p>miss_murd3r, you seem adamant that the counselor should be the one to send official documents to the college. However, when I talked to my counselor, she specifically said it was not her job to mail the documents for me. She said the transcript and things would have the school’s official seal, and that’s good enough. But it would be my job to collect and mail them. She would do it for me if I asked, but I don’t really trust her to since I’m sure she has other things to do that are her job.</p>
<p>So is it absolutely necessary for the counselor to mail the documents? I was under the impression it was the norm, but this is the first time I’ve it was a requirement. I wasn’t worried until now.</p>
<p>@notan</p>
<p>I talked to my counselor and alumni studying in US. They said that the school will take care of the necessary docs, recs & transcript. Once I’ve finished the essays and other things in the form, I’ll have to give them to the school. Then the envelopes will be sealed and then I’ll take care of the mailing.</p>
<p>But they suggested, that applying online would be a better option since there is no chance of tampering</p>
<p>Hi notan;</p>
<p>Sorry for the late reply - I didn’t see your post until now.</p>
<p>I agree with what mmn13ps3 said. I think it’s rather odd how your counselor said it’s “not her job” to do that. Does your school have a college counselor, as opposed to a guidance counselor? If you do, approach them about it. If not, to be a 100% sure, call the school that you are applying to and ask. If they accept you sending it, then you can do that. I find it weird how she said that the transcript can be sent by you - that can only be sent from school to school, since it can be tampered with when at the hands of a student.</p>
<p>Very odd…</p>
<p>the counselor actually wants me to send the app online</p>