<p>If the college asks for a letter of recommendation but there is no official form on their site for the profs to fill out, can you use the Common App instructor evaluation form? Lets say the college accepts their own regular application, not common app's.</p>
<p>This question more specifically is for UCLA, NYU(yes I know, this one accepts common app), LMU and USC. No one answered this in the College Admissions forum so I'm hoping someone here knows.</p>
<p>For this kind of situation, I would just submit a traditional letter. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to also submit the form though, but I would assume that if they don’t ask for it, they either don’t like the form, or would just prefer not to consider it.</p>
<p>You could certainly use the form or just have the profs send a letter.</p>
<p>If a college is not a Common App school, I would suggest that you NOT use the the Common Application reference form. It’s certainly not a big deal if you do, but it sends at least a subliminal message that whispers, “I’m applying to other colleges besides yours.” Ideally, your professor will write a letter on your behalf and which is tailored to each target college. The prof would not only extol you fine qualities but also point out why this particular school is a good fit for you. I realize, of course, that you can’t always ask a professor to write several individual letters, but that’s the best-case-scenario, if you think you can pull it off (or ask a few different profs to write one letter each).</p>