<p>At first, teacher was unable to submit through Common App because school uses Naviance Family Connection. GC has no idea how to submit LORs electronically, when using Common App; he suggested using snail mail. </p>
<p>We figured out that S had to fill out the waiver form and supply his Common App username/password to Naviance. Done. Teacher resubmitted LOR through Common App. I am assuming she did it successfully this time. Can't find it in the Common App account anywhere. So, I'm thinking we still don't have it done correctly.</p>
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<li><p>Does the teacher submit LOR through Common App or Naviance? If through Naviance, how do we do that? GC has no idea. There is nothing on the Naviance account that mentions teacher recommendations. </p></li>
<li><p>Where will the confirmation (that the LOR went through) show up? Common App or Naviance? </p></li>
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<p>Why is this so difficult? I'm ready for S to delete the name of his school on the Common App!</p>
<p>I am curious about how this will go for us as well. Our school just started Naviance for this year so I am expecting problems but that is incredibly lame that the GC doesn’t know. You might try to email the Common app people through their site to ask.</p>
<p>I just did some hunting. Apparently when you go into Naviance and select Colleges you want to apply to the form comes up I guess the first time before you enter colleges and you click off that you are allowing the forms to be sent.</p>
<p>There is where you must put in your common app username and password to link your Naviance acct to the Common app. My son’s is different so I guess this is a crucial step.</p>
<p>Another update. It worked! Here is what we did.</p>
<p>In Naviance, we went to “Colleges”, then “Colleges I’m Applying To”. The FERPA form came up. Fill out the form AND supply your Common App Username and Password. S filled out the FERPA waiver in Common App as well.</p>
<p>Through Common App, S invited his teacher; she submitted her LOR.</p>
<p>In Common App, under School Forms, select that teacher for one of your schools, and you will see if the recommendation has been started, not started or submitted.</p>
<p>Unless the school did something that we aren’t aware of, this finally worked.</p>
<p>Lakemom, S sent the request through Common App - NOT Naviance.</p>
<p>It seems that each school has a different kind of set-up with Naviance and, therefore, different procedures. Although, S has the suspicion that his GC might have done something through Naviance to finally allow the LOR to go through. I’ll call the GC tomorrow and ask. My friends (IRL and on CC) need to know!</p>
<p>Unlike yours, our Naviance says nothing about teacher recommendations/requests. </p>
<p>In fact, how does Naviance know which schools you’re applying to? The GC instructs us to submit all apps separately, but what about the “Colleges I’m Applying To” in Naviance? Does the counselor submit that? Or do we? I cannot see any details about that either!</p>
<p>With ours, teacher rec requests are supposed to go to Naviance which sends the teacher an email. What I don’t know is then is how the teacher accesses the rec to get it to the common app. I imagine the common app sends the teacher a link but does Naviance send that same link?</p>
<p>School starts tomm but since this is the first year they are starting naviance and they are not the swiftest school when it comes to all this college stuff. I of course am trying to find out info so we don’t have to rely on them. If you hadn’t posed your question, I would not have known about how the two get linked up at all though I was curious since we have not gotten any real guidance so far.</p>