<p>-On the Common App, can the teachers I asked for recommendation letters from see the colleges I'm applying to?
-Is so, how do I make it so that they don't see certain ones?</p>
<p>-Does my guidance counselor see what colleges I'm applying to?
-If so, how do I make it so that she don't see certain ones?
or
-Is there a way around it?</p>
<p>I've always been a fairly private personal with certain things and I'm not comfortable with the idea of other people seeing what my reach schools are.</p>
<p>I know that the guidance counselor does see the list of the colleges that will receive your common app. (because I once acted as a counselor). I think teachers do too.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any way around it. Note that reports and recommendation letters from those people are sent to colleges. It makes sense that they should know where the reports and letters go to.</p>
<p>I don’t think the teachers can see the schools, there is no reason for them to. They also cannot see each other in terms of knowing who else is writing a rec for a student.
It does make sense the guidance counselor can see the schools however and they need to know anyway since they send the midyear and final reports.</p>
<p>Your counselor can see all the schools to which you are applying. Your teachers can see all the schools to which you have assigned them. (Of course, this only applies if these individuals are submitting school forms online. If they have indicated that they want to be offline, then they cannot see any of your information.)</p>
<p>What I don’t understand is… if they aren’t going to be sending different things to each school, why do they need to know my schools?
I thought somehow, they an just upload all of my information through the common app, and that was all that was necessary.</p>
<p>I agree.
Our school uses Naviance for all the school reports and teacher recommendations, and Naviance links with the Common Application, so everytime you apply to a school using the C.A. the school forms get sent automatically and the individual teachers have no info. on the school name.</p>
<p>Oh, I’ve heard of Naviance. O.o
I don’t know if my school also uses that.
Can anyone just you know… use it? Or is it more complicated than that xD</p>
<p>It requires your school to subscribe to it. That means that they’d have to pay money to use it, so they’d tell you if they did.
I think (aka unsure, don’t take for 100% fact) you can subscribe for a personal account, but you can’t send rec letters with a personal account.</p>
<p>D’s HS, for example, did not do online teacher or GC recs (this even as of last year), but only by paper and snail mail. The student could do the Common App online but then had to give each selected teacher a stamped, addressed envelope for each college’s admissions office with a blank Common App teacher recommendation form. By this computerless method, I can’t imagine how a given teacher would know what other schools one would be applying to outside of the ones they were asked to write recs for. </p>
<p>Of course as secretive as you wish to be, there has to be at least one person at your HS who would have to know all the schools you’re applying to because your transcripts do need to be sent out somewhere, right? And they have to come directly from the school, not from you.</p>
That’s true. Starting this year, my school sends everything over Naviance’s service. The teachers don’t need to know anything, but to send to a school the GC needs a form saying what school you’re sending to (along with other information). Once it’s sent, Naviance shows (to you, your parents and your GC) what schools you’ve applied to, and the GCs want you to report your acceptances (including after waitlist or deferral), waitlists, deferrals and rejections.</p>
<p>Thank you everybody! i really appreciate the input. :] (Seriously! haha)
On last question:
So, you have to assign each teacher you’re getting recs from colleges. They will see those.
Now, can you assign teachers schools, and somehow add schools lter and they won’t get notified?
Whether it’s done after the ones from the first schools you assigned them were sent, or otherwise</p>
<p>Can you explain why you feel the need to be so secretive about which school you are applying? Why wouldn’t you want your teachers and counselor to know which colleges you applied? </p>
<p>If anything, I would think you would want to partner with your school counselor to make sure you have the right mix of reach/target/safety schools. They know best what types of kids with similar stats as you from your high school get admitted to what kinds of colleges. If your high school is super competitive, you may be able to get into a more selective school than if you’re an A student at a high school that is not very competitive.</p>
<p>I appreciate your concern. :]
But trust me, I know about all of that. I do have a counselor who knows about everything I’m doing. She’s not the one I’m worried about. The one I am worried about is going to be the one who’s actually handling my transcripts If you knew the person, you would understand why I would want to share as little information as possible.</p>
<p>As for the teachers:
This is actually something that other people in my school deal with too. Bottom line, I go to an underdeveloped, low performing, inner city school. All we ave ever been pushed to each for is community college, and this commuter school a half hour from here. That’s all. Students like myself quickly get judged for wanting to “reach” for more “reach” schools. I get the whole, “Pssshhh, who do you think YOU are??” Look. As well as others.</p>
<p>I’m sorry to hear that you do not feel like you are supported by your teachers. Please know that there are thousands of people in the college counseling and admission profession that have your back. The community college and local school that you mention will be the right place for many students, but it doesn’t sound like they are the right place for you. Try to find one or two people at your school–teachers or not–who can share this message with your colleges, and use them as your recommenders. Also, email the admission offices at the places you are considering and ask for some advice. They will be more than willing to help. Finally, if you’re not already planning to do this, I hope you’ll consider sharing this part of your story somewhere in your application. It’s an important part of who you are–and who you want to be.</p>
<p>Enso02, Is there anyway you can see if your counselor can upload your transcript into the common app so this other person does not have to be involved? I believe in the counselor section of the common app it tells counselors how to do this. Your counselor can also email the common ap support team if he/she needed help.</p>
<p>The reason I suggest this is once the transcript and school forms are uploaded by the counselor, then they are in the common ap system. When you apply to schools, then the school just downloads it along with teacher recs. </p>
<p>I know that my son’s counselor did this and the same goes for the mid school and final reports. It can all be done online by the counselor.</p>
<p>I looked this up in the counselor section, and it appears that if your counselor chose to do your forms online, then all students that they are the counselor of must also have their forms done online. See if you counselor is wiling to look into this. </p>
<p>WHAT IS THE COMMON APP ONLINE SCHOOL FORMS SYSTEM?
This is an optional system by which counselors and teachers may submit supporting documents to college admission offices electronically and at no charge to the school official or to the student. This service allows school officials working with students who submit applications through Common App Online the option of submitting letters of recommendation, transcripts, school profiles, etc., electronically. For a brief video tutorial of the online school forms system, click here:</p>
<p>Counselors
Teachers</p>
<p>WHICH SCHOOL FORMS MAY BE SUBMITTED ONLINE?
For teachers, the Teacher Evaluation (including an attached letter of recommendation) may be submitted online. Counselors can submit the School Report (including transcript, attached letter of recommendation, and optional attached school profile), the Optional Report (including transcript), the Midyear Report (including transcript), the Final Report (including transcript), the Homeschool Supplement (if applicable), the International Supplement (if applicable), and the NACAC Fee Waiver. The Early Decision Agreement may also be submitted online to member colleges that accept it electronically.</p>
<p>AM I REQUIRED TO SUBMIT SCHOOL FORMS ONLINE? DO I SIGN UP AS AN INDIVIDUAL OR A SCHOOL?
Participation in the Common App Online School Forms system is completely optional. Please understand, however, that whatever choice you make will apply to all applicants who identify you as their counselor or teacher. You cannot submit online forms for some students and not for others. Because school officials register with the school forms system as individuals, your decision is specific to you, not your entire school. Therefore, other teachers or counselors at your school may choose to submit their forms online even if you do not.</p>