<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm going to ask my prof to write me a recommendation for college.
But I'm applying to more than 1 college, so shall I ask the prof to write multiple rec for different colleges on specific college letterheads ?</p>
<p>Very lame question, but please reply.</p>
<p>Single rec letter: xeroxed and you send it to multiple schools or it’s uploaded and sent to multiple schools. Happens to everyone.</p>
<p>Since you’re a transfer, I think you have to go hard copy w/ instructor LORs.</p>
<p>So does the prof sends the rec directly to universities or after he has finished he gives the letter to me, I make the required copies & send to the universities ?</p>
<p>And colleges like MIT needs the eval to be done on their letterheads, so how do I solve this problem ?</p>
<p>Whether as a transfer you can have same letters for multiple colleges really depends. If the college has a rec form that has to be used then you need that separately filled out by prof and sent. Letters are usually sent directly by profs – you might supply addressed envelopes with stamp if done by mail but better to use prof’s own envelopes provided by school. Moreover if sent by mail it is better for prof to sign separate copies of the letter and mail them to each college than doing photocopies of an already signed letter (in other words, the college gets an “original”). If done by email with attached letter, that makes no difference.</p>
<p>^ So if I apply to ‘n’ colleges, my prof have to write ‘n’ recs separately.
I’m fearful that my prof might feel annoyed at this.</p>
<p>Do most of your schools use the CA? </p>
<p>If so, your prof would fill in the Instructor Evaluation (w/o signature), print it out and copy the form for ‘n’ schools, then they sign each copy. They can do the same with the accompanying LOR if it needs to be on letterhead.</p>
<p>^ None of them uses CA :(</p>
<p>He does not necessarily have to write n separate recs letters. He can write one on the word processor and then he can use the same one to create n letters with the only thing changing being the college address that it is being sent to, and then he can print out each letter on the school letterhead and sign and send each one separately.</p>