<p>Interestingly enough, the teacher recs I sent from my own house arrived at two of my colleges before my transcript/counselor recs got there. I gave my counselor these forms early last week and he assured me they were sent out before January 1st. I am incredulous, to say the least. Adding to the tumult is the fact that my friend asked a teacher (today) if she had sent his recomendation to NU over break, as he had requested, and she said she hadn't! Why is it that teachers and counselors fail to understand that we have deadlines to meet? Does anyone else have high school staff that fail at life?</p>
<p>same here!</p>
<p>With the amount of paper an admissions office is receiving at this point, it is very likely the informaiton sent by your school is there and waiting to be filed. Don't blame teachers for not meeting a 1/1 deadline if the friend asked just before break. At our school, we are required to give our teachers at least 30 days before a deadline. They write recs for so many kids and everyone of those kids think theirs are the most urgent. People have only themselves to blame when caught in this situation with a week lead time.</p>
<p>adding to the tumult lol</p>
<p>@ Flyboy</p>
<p>I understand what you mean about last second applications, but when the teachers say they will meet the deadline and they do not it is still an issue. Also, at my school (one which sends a person to a competitive university biyearly) teachers are not what I would identify as bogged down by rec letter requests.</p>
<p>Notsomuch, tell me, you say you gave the counselor his rec a week ago. That was what i am guessing like the 22nd? You too procrastinated in meeting deadlines. You should of done it early december. Teachers have lives too. I bet you this time last year you probably were not doing much / slacking off. Why should a teacher now, one week before the deadline, all of a sudden be able to right you a recommendation on time? </p>
<p>I am just trying to play devils advocate here.</p>
<p>Entirely true. I had asked my teachers in September, and I asked them to have it written by middle of November. One of them hadn't, and that'd probably be the only time I'd think a complaint was legitimate.</p>
<p>^Ok see i understand that one but if you do it a week before the deadline...</p>
<p>well, i gave my teacher the form a month before the deadline and he lost it! and then I gave him another one like 10 days before the deadline and he was like "oh , i forgot"... i'm from Pakistan and they think and teachers in my school think of me as a traitor because I want to study abroad .. lol... "What Northwestern? they probably opened this university in a house and you're just going there because its in the US" , "Unless you're not going to harvard, it's not worth it" bla bla bla .</p>
<p>But once again.. they said they would meet the deadline. My recomendations were already written (since August); all that needed to be done was the postmarking and sending.</p>
<p>people always say to follow up with teachers a week befor the deadline to ensure that your stuff is sent in. One of my good friends asked a teacher to write her recs for all her schools, he forgot to do all of them. I'm not sure how it was remedied, he ended up sending them, but i'm pretty sure they went in late. Just gota be careful about these things!</p>