<p>I tried to get one of my recommenders to submit the letter online, but he didn't know how. He gave me the letter in pdf form, so could I email it to myself and submit it online or would that look suspicious and I should just do it through the mail?</p>
<p>Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>When you add his email to the common app, and then select him as a recommender for a particular college, he will receive an email from the common app system. He just has to fill that out and paste his words into that form.</p>
<p>If he is not computer literate, then you can print out a PDF teacher form from the common app. To find the Teacher Evaluation form, go to commonapp.org, then “Download Forms”. From that list open the teacher evaluation form. Fill out the PDF with your specific information (name, birthday, school, etc) and then print it out.</p>
<p>Bring that form to your teacher with an stamped/addressed envelop for each school. Your teacher can fill out one version of the PDF, and create as many copies as he needs to go to each school. He can also print out his recommendation letter as many times as he needs, and include a copy with each PDF form … one each for each school.</p>
<p>If your teacher wants to do everything hardcopy, you still can add his/her name via the commonapp, and when he gets that email he can respond that he is going to do the evaluation hardcopy, which will then show as complete in the commonapp.</p>