Letters of Recommendation for Transfers?

Transfer Students
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I am a little confused about the common app recommendation process for transfers. Some colleges ask for an “academic evaluation” and some ask for a “instructor recommendation.” I assume these are the same thing, but on the common app under “Recommenders and FERPA” there are two different options to invite recommenders. One for “all colleges” and one that is school specific. Is first option for any recommendations by someone who is not an academic evaluator while the second option is where I assign professors?

For one of the schools I am applying to, I have to use the letter of recommendation my high school college advisor wrote last year. I contacted my high school and they still have it. Should they send it to the school separately or would I somehow link that to my common application?

I asked two of my professors from last semester if they would be willing to write recommendations for my transfer application, and they both said yes. They each asked me to provide them with something that outlines what they need to write, but I am not sure where to find this. Will the common app send them what they need to know when I assign them to colleges on my application?

I know this is long, I just want to be sure I do it right. Thanks!

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When you do transfer recommendations through the common app you will invite your recommenders to your common app profile in general

Then, you can assign any/all of your recommenders to each school individually. For example, lets say you invite:
Professor A: High school teacher
Professor B: College math teacher
Professor C: College psych teacher.

And lets say you have:
College 1
College 2
College 3

You can assign whoever you want to whichever you want so for example maybe College 1 only allows 1 rec.
So you assign Professor B

Then, College 2 says you can assign however many recs you want so you assign:
Prof A, B, and C.

However, perhaps College 3 only allows college professors (which is the case sometimes, at least for the required recommenders), so you assign Prof B & C

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@philbegas Thanks for the response! About my teacher asking for the “information” for the letters, is this something I find on each college’s website, something I create, or will the Common App send it to them when I invite them as recommenders?

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Aren’t they asking for YOUR information? When I asked for recommendations I had to send my teachers my transcript, resume, reasons for transferring, schools I’m applying to, etc.