<p>I attended NYU's summer high school workshop, and one of the professors teaches at NYU and offered us all letters of recommendation, provided we give her five weeks notice and send SASE envelopes. I wanted to e-mail her before I sent her the envelopes, and it took FOREVER for her to get back to me, so long that I barely made her requested five week lead time. I filled out the addresses the night I got her e-mail but we were out of stamps so my mom said she's get some while I was at school and send them for me.</p>
<p>That was almost two weeks ago. Today I found out that my mom decided to put OUR return address on all the envelopes before she sent them off. What do I do? Keep in mind, this professor is EXTREMELY strict and it takes FOREVER for her to get back to me. Not to mention I live almost a thousand miles away from her. PLEASE HELP!!!</p>
<p>Since you are so panicked, I would advise an email to the professor. Thank her again for agreeing to do this, say you hope she has received the materials from you, mention your mom just told you about adding the return address, say please cross that out and sorry for any inconvenience.</p>
<p>What I would do in your place, anyway. And then I would stop worrying because you have done all you can and it probably is NOT a problem to begin with!</p>
<p>wait...so are you not supposed to put return addresses on your teacher recommendation envelopes? Should you put your teacher's address or your school address?</p>
<p>We didn't put any return address at all, leaving it to the recommenders to put what they wished. Since the recommendations aren't supposed to be coming directly from you, you shouldn't address the envelope as if they had. Chances are, some secretary will open the envelope and throw the same away and no one will even notice. But I see no reason to put a question in the college's or your recommender's mind.</p>
<p>I'm sure any number of students DO put their own address down by force of habit, so I doubt it is really much of a problem. I suggested the email since the OP seemed so worried.</p>
<p>Ah, thanks you've put me at ease. I probably wouldn't be so panicked if I hadn't heard stories of colleges assuming fradulent recs because of the return address.</p>