<p>My teacher put in "Case Western Uni" in my common app rec letter.</p>
<p>Now Fordham got a rec letter saying "case western on it!"</p>
<p>What shall i do!</p>
<p>Oh GOD?!</p>
<p>I just emailed Fordham and made my teacher contact common app. But from what happened this year, I seriously doubt common app will reply any time soon </p>
<p>WHAT TO DO!</p>
<p>It may not be that big of a problem for you. The colleges know that you are applying to more than one college and they also know that the teacher is writing the letter, not you. So don’t freak out too much. However, it is obviously better if you can fix it from the teacher’s end. Can’t the teacher delete their LOR and reupload a corrected one? Contact your teacher again</p>
<p>Hope you didn’t actually like Fordham OP</p>
<p>^ what’s that supposed to mean?</p>
<p>@cabooser,
No she can’t! when it’s submitted, it’s gone! I emailed them. She said she sent common app a request, but i never read over here that they actually helped!</p>
<p>Well there’s not much you can do now… if your stats are above average for the school you’ll be fine anyway most likely.</p>
<p>I guess</p>
<p>But for future apps too!</p>
<p>Common app better reply!</p>
<p>If you plan to apply to other schools, you need to get that letter without any school reference uploaded into the common app.</p>
<p>The way you do this is create a different name for the teacher and have the teacher create or give you a different email address for your common app request to be sent to the teachers.</p>
<p>For example. If your teachers name was Suzy Smith. Create another teacher request using just her initial: S. Smith or First initial middle name S. Ann Smith. Put in the new email address in so the “new” Smith teacher get the email request.</p>
<p>Then have the teacher upload the fixed rec.</p>
<p>You then only select the new name for your common app rec requests. BE CAREFUL to not use the old name ever again when you assign the Smith teacher to your other schools.</p>
<p>I thought of this.</p>
<p>but isn’t it wrong though?</p>
<p>If the common ap says they cannot do anything about changing the letter of rec then I don’t see it is “wrong”. It is simply a way to get around something that should have been part of the software to allow this flexibility that they never addressed.</p>
<p>Your only other alternative is to snail mail all future recs from that teacher and do not assign the teacher to any school. You would need to talk to your counselor and perhaps each school and ask them if there is anything special that needs to be included on the rec. For example, have the teacher write your common app # on the top of the rec.</p>