<p>I'm submitting my counselor/teacher #1 rec via snail mail, and teacher #2 rec online via common app. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that colleges want you to do either/or, not both. Do you think this will cause major problem, or is it something I shouldn't worry about?</p>
<p>I did this for BC and it worked out fine, there shouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>Thanks! Anyone else?</p>
<p>It should be fine. Unless the University specifically tells you not to on their website (like University of Notre Dame).</p>
<p>I asked a college and the response was that “all online or all offline” refers to the recommendations of any SPECIFIC teacher. That is, a teacher must do his part either all online or all offline, but you can have different teachers using different methods.</p>
<p>The wording was very confusing. It had me worried for a while.</p>
<p>I had a [somewhat similar] question regarding the Common App teacher recommendation. There is nowhere on my application that allows me to sign up a teacher to write a recommendation online. I vaguely remember my counselor saying that my school doesn’t use the Naviance online system, which is weird, because my friend - who attends the same school - was able to sign her teacher up electronically.</p>
<p>Do some high schools just not use the online Common App system?
Did they discontinue the service at some point in some schools?</p>
<p>I’m very confused.</p>
<p>@unconventional: It has nothing to do with your high school. If you have your teacher’s email address, that’s all you need in order to identify your teacher as an online reference.</p>
<p>If you supply the teacher’s email address, the teacher will be considered an online reference unless he indicates otherwise on commonapp.org. If you don’t supply the teacher’s email address, he’ll be considered an offline reference.</p>
<p>Either way, most target colleges just want to receive the rec letters – all online is convenient for them and you, but they’ll take them either way unless they’ve specified otherwise.</p>