<p>Two months ago, I asked this teacher to write my recommendations. I gave him the forms, a resume, a letter thanking him telling him what to do with them when he was done, etc, my transcript, and my current schedule. I told him I was planning on mailing around the end of November/beginning of December. Last Tuesday, I sent him an email telling him I planned to mail Monday and that it would be excellent if he could give my counselor my recs my then. No reply. On Monday, no rec.
What do I do?
Do I ask/confront him about them, or just leave it alone?
I feel like I did everything right, and that he should have at least emailed me saying he wasn't going to do them or something. ugh.</p>
<p>Sometimes email doesn’t work right. I’ve tried contacting counselors/teachers/whatever by emails with no response. Their replies reached my inbox a month later (seriously). If you go in to talk (not confront, don’t go in assuming the worst) to your teacher, I’ll bet he has a rec ready or almost-ready. I’ve freaked out over this a few times and each time, I got a positive result.</p>
<p>Edit: Wait…did you mean you went to him and he had no rec? Or he didn’t email it to you? If the former, why didn’t you ask him why then? If the latter, see original advice.</p>
<p>Speak directly with the teacher (face-to-face). Be specific and ask if you can count on the rec being completed within the next 2 days.</p>
<p>ASK! And ask in person. My D had 2 teachers who didn’t turn in her recs in time. She wasn’t aware of it until one of them told her. Then the college wouldn’t accept them. This was for $40,000 in scholarships that she would have probably gotten. </p>
<p>ASK! Ask nicely. Assume there is a reason. Of these 2 teachers, one probably just lost track of the deadline (the school gave them VERY little time to do them)! And the other one didn’t receive TWO different e-mails (one from my D, another from the school inviting him to send a rec). </p>
<p>ASK! Don’t delay! Be extremely polite, you understand how busy he is, but you’re facing a deadline. Many schools deadlines for priority consideration for scholarships and/or financial aid are already past. Smile a lot! Send thank you notes afterward.</p>
<p>Yes, politely talk to the teacher in person, and bring along copies of what you’d given the teacher before. The teacher may have lost that info.</p>