<p>At my school, the way it works is when we send transcripts out, we fill out a form, which has a box to check if you need a counselor recommendation to be sent also with it. Then the registrars office sees this attached form on the envelope and gives the stuff to our counselors to fill out the recommendationbefore before they send out the envelope. I did this, but because ND's form doesnt have a space to write a recommendation, just instructions to attach a letter, Im paranoid that my counselor might have just quickly past over the recommendation and filled it out quickly without seeing the part asking for the letter. My class is 663 and because shes got a lot to do (although we have like 4 counselors for sophs, jrs, and sr's)Im worried that she might not have quickly done my recommendation and accidentally passed over the written letter part. And because our system of recommendation doesnt require students to directly ask for recs from counselor, I didnt have the chance to explain to her what she was supposed to do. Am I just being ridiculous?</p>
<p>yea u are being ridiculous. she is a GC not student. I am sure she has done enough recommendations that she will notice an acutal letter is required. Furthermore, if u are her are distanced, then i dont think ur GC's rec will help at all because u are given us an impression u dont talk to her often.</p>
<p>I understand perfectly where you're coming from, because the counselors at my school are set up like that. We can't even go talk to them unless they call us down for something or we request a schedule change.
I would say see if you can request a meeting with your GC and just go in and tell them, that yes, you've done the paperwork, but ND needs a counselor rec and its really important to you. I'm sure she knows you need a letter, but if nothing else, you'll at least be able to go in there and show her how important this is to you. Maybe she'll even be able to write a better letter, because she sees your dedicated.
I know GC recs at schools like ours suck, but all I can say is make sure they know that ND is really important to you and just talk to her. I'm sure it'll be alright.</p>