<p>I asked my APUSH teacher a month and a half ago to write me a college recommendation letter for the colleges I'm applying to (Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, Upenn). She agreed. Over the course of a month, I've been checking up on my Common App status and saw that my teacher still hadn't submitted the letter yet. I reminded her twice including the day before winter break, and now she still hasn't submitted her rec letter on common app. There should be no waiting period since i'm doing everything online. Plus i can't contact her at all since the school is closed, nor can i get another teacher to do it for me since they never tell us their personal email or phone#.</p>
<p>My question: Is there a chance that, when I get back from winter break and have a talk with my teacher, that her recommendation letter will still be accepted? Or am I royally screwed in my application because of one letter?</p>
<p>From what I’ve gleaned in reading CC over the past two years, if there is any part of the application where a university may provide a grace period, it’s for the LORs, precisely for the reason you noted above. However, universities are independent from one another so unfortunately you’ll probably have to check with each one to make sure.</p>
<p>What do you think would happen with late transcript/counselor rec AND sat scores?
I ask because my school apparently can’t make the postmark date, and I completely forgot to send sat scores (stupid…) - I did it yesterday. Should I still bother applying and wasting the $90?</p>
<p>scores shouuldn’t be a problem as long as you sent them online. as for lors/transcript, i would call stanford and ask and explain your situation. hopefully, they’ll understand</p>
<p>You don’t need to call. It will be fine, just send them to Stanford as soon as you can. Stanford won’t even be able to start reaching out to students about missing documents until the beginning of February, so if letters come in a week or two into January it won’t really matter.</p>
<p>Same for SAT scores: as long as you took the SAT in december you’ll be fine. just send the scores as soon as you can after the test. In the fall a ton of students had to wait till Oct 29 to send their scores for REA, when the deadline was Nov 1 and the scores were accepted with no problem.</p>
<p>The only (very) hard deadline is the electronic submission of the common application and the stanford supplement. basically no one will get an extension for anything.</p>
<p>When you say to send them in, do you mean by US Mail? Or do the teachers submit them online? How do they do this if the student has already submitted the common application/supplement? Is there a specific place that a teacher or counselor can submit a recommendation?</p>
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<p>Big Mike wrote:</p>
<p>You don’t need to call. It will be fine, just send them to Stanford as soon as you can. Stanford won’t even be able to start reaching out to students about missing documents until the beginning of February, so if letters come in a week or two into January it won’t really matter.</p>
<p>Same for SAT scores: as long as you took the SAT in december you’ll be fine. just send the scores as soon as you can after the test. In the fall a ton of students had to wait till Oct 29 to send their scores for REA, when the deadline was Nov 1 and the scores were accepted with no problem.</p>
<p>The only (very) hard deadline is the electronic submission of the common application and the stanford supplement. basically no one will get an extension for anything.</p>