Question about Common App, teacher evaluation, and recommendations

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>When I give my teacher evaluation forms to the teacher of my choice tomorrow, does he/she also have to write an additional letter letter of recommendation, or does whatever the evaluation ask of, count as a recommendation? </p>

<p>The evaluation sheet says ''Please write whatever you think is important about this student, including a description of academic and personal characteristics, as demonstrated in your classroom. We welcome information that will help us to differentiate this student from others. (Feel free to attach an additional sheet or another reference you may have prepared on behalf of this student.)''</p>

<p>Is this basically telling the teacher to write a separate recommendation with the evaluation, or do I tell them they have to write me an additional letter with this?</p>

<p>I printed the evaluation sheets out, so I'm planning to have my teacher mail them in.</p>

<p>*Oh. Also, do schools generally accept letters of recommendation without the evaluation form, even though I'm using the common app for that school? I already had a teacher submit some recommendations without the evaluation form because I didn't see the evaluation part of the common app until recently...will this still be okay for me?</p>

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<p>Generally, the teacher fills out the evaluation form, and writes a separate letter. Ideally, the evaluation form is filled out on-line and the letter is uploaded to the common app.</p>

<p>If the teacher does not do on-line, then you give them a stack of stamped addressed envelopes, and the teacher makes a copy and mails them directly to the schools.</p>

<p>For the teacher that has already mailed in the letter, I suggest giving another envelope so that the college gets the evaluation form and letter together. Better an extra copy of the letter than the letter getting misfiled.</p>