<p>When I ask the teachers to write me letters of recommendation, which form do they fill out? Is it on the common app website? Can I use the one form that my teacher filled out and use that for other universities???</p>
<p>Couldn’t find the current one, but after a quick search I found the 2012-2013 one, and I’m pretty sure it’s still the same (your teachers/counsellor will know where the current form is). If you want to take a look, here it is: <a href=“http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_TeacherEvaluation.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ugadm.northwestern.edu/documents/UG_Admissions_TeacherEvaluation.pdf</a>. You’ll notice that it is not college-specific, so you can send this form to all different colleges. Not sure about other systems, but if you use Naviance, you can send one form to universities A, B, and C, and another form to B, C, and D, if you want.</p>
<p>@LAMuniv Thank you so much for your assistance 
My school does use Naviance, but nobody really tells me the logistics of it, so I’m really blind right now… Any ideas when and where the “current form” will be released?</p>
<p>@Hoolala the form will be available to your teachers on Naviance, and is probably already up, or will be released in August if not. I think students just can’t access it.</p>
<p>@LAMuniv Thanks!!
Do you perhaps have any ideas what I can do if I want to ask the teachers back in my old school where I finished 9th and 10th grade? </p>
<p>Or, do colleges hate it when students have to reach back into their freshman and sophomore year to get recommendations? Is there a place on a document or common app that I can explain my situation to them??</p>
<p>This is my situation:
I lived in a country in Central Asia and went to a tiny school where they do not have Naviance. Then for 11th and 12th grade, I moved to an international school in South Korea. But I had cherished much valuable relationships that extended beyond academics and formal teacher-student bond. Rather, our relationships were very personal and the two teachers that I am trying to get the recommendations from are my two awesome life mentors too. This was possible because that school was such a small and tight community (currently 7 graduating class of 2015). Whereas the international school I go to is pretty big, and the teachers don’t know me as much. They have seen lots of “other talented” students and I am sure that even though I have all As in all of the classes I attend in that school, they wouldn’t know me as the 9th and 10th grade teachers in my old school do…</p>
<p>So in order to get the recommendation letters (and I need them pretty early for Early Decision), from my 9th and 10th grade teachers, I think it’s sooner the better to notify the two teachers… I certainly can ask them if they can write my letters of recommendations (which they did promise me last year before I left) but I would like to know when and where can THEY get the forms. </p>
<p>P.S. one of the teachers left my school for a furlough, so I should probably send him the recommendation form via email or something…</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>It would be good if you could get at least one rec from a teacher from 11th or 12th grade, but I don’t think going back further than that would be a problem since colleges will see that you switched schools, so teachers at your current school may not know you as well as the ones from the old school. Unless you truly think they’ll write you and outstanding rec, I’d be cautious about going further back than 10th grade… ultimately, you want to choose the teachers that know you the best and will write the best recs, and if you don’t think you’ll get that from more recent teachers, I think you have the right to go back to 9th or 10th grade :)</p>
<p>@LAMuniv Thanks a BUNCH!! :D</p>