<p>Our school has a basic form that looks a bit like the common app reccomendation letter. I am applying to a number of schools that don;t accept the common app. Am I expected to ask my teachers for "special" recommendations for all of the diffrent schools I want to go to? Also the brown plme is quite diffrent of a reccomdation I personally think that is the only reccomendation letter I need that is not the standard common app one. What do other people do?</p>
<p>I'd like to know this also</p>
<p>One more additional question to add:</p>
<p>I'm sorry but I'm not certain how recs work. Do we ask a teacher to write one and they give it to us? If so, are we allowed to copy it to use for different colleges?</p>
<p>To my best knowledge, teachers usually don't show the recs to you. As for the copying, since the signature MUST be original on the recommendation, the teacher would have to make the copies.
In my school, teachers generally write one detailed letter about the student and then attach the letter to the required forms.
Hope that helps!</p>
<p>At my school, we ask teachers to write a letter of rec and they use a standard form provided by guidance. They return the recommendation to guidance. The guidance dept then submits all paperwork to colleges as per my direction.
I believe the standard letter of rec is adequate for all schools.</p>
<p>At my school, we ask them for a rec, and you fill out this paper about EC's, etc, but most importantly which colleges the rec is for, so when they copy and sign each copy they can change the name of the school for each rec. You give them an evelope with a stamp that they mail themselves.</p>