<p>I've given my counselor six months to write my recommendation. She has yet to do it, and I've applied EA.</p>
<p>The guidance department at my high school is mandated to write recommendations for all seniors applying to colleges. The senior class is split, so that all counselors are only responsible for about forty students. At the end of my junior year, my counselor sent out a memo for all of her students to complete their resumes and fill out biography forms so she could more easily write the rec. She planned to write them over the summer. When I came back to school as a senior, and was beginning to send out applications, she casually remarked that she had not yet started the recommendations because she had a busy summer. In the mean time, I compiled three teacher recommendations, a letter from my employer, and another letter from an EC advisor. I tried to get away with only sending those, and updating my applications with my counselor's letter once it was completed. </p>
<p>I asked her about it again two weeks ago, after my second round of EA applications were due. She told me that she had yet to start mine, but it "didn't matter" because adcoms "don't look at that stuff anyway." She also commented that she was moving through her list alphabetically. I'm at the beginning of her section of the alphabet. If she hasn't completed mine, she hasn't completed anyone else's either.</p>
<p>Yesterday, I received a letter from the first school I was accepted at (a local safety) who told me that my acceptance would be rescinded if my counselor's recommendation was not in their hands in two weeks.</p>
<p>This woman has had six months to write this recommendation! And she is convinced that they do not matter in the application process! If she doesn't get it done, she'll hinder my chances of being accepted anywhere. How do I make her complete it, while remaining in her good graces so it will be a positive rec?</p>