<p>Hey All,
Is there any way to check if our teachers have uploaded the recommendations on Naviance?</p>
<p>It is not being reflected on CommonApp as uploaded, so I'm quite clueless as to how to confirm it.</p>
<p>Yes, if your teacher has uploaded your letter to common app via Naviance it will say completed on your naviance account</p>
<p>in our Naviance, this is reflected on the “colleges I am applying to” page. On the bottom it shows the teacher recommendations initially as “requested”, and then when finished by the teacher, “completed”. </p>
<p>I do not know whether this means Common App has the recommendation, though? And how do we specify which teacher recommendation goes to which college? I don’t see a way to do that in Naviance.</p>
<p>You need to go on your common application…when the letter of rec is uploaded to common app you will get a green check. I unfortunately am still having problems with this. Teachers have done their job but common app not accepting letter of rec from Naviance</p>
<p>thanks bigbooklover. I’ll check common app later when it’s actually working.</p>
<p>Kmurph22, we had the same question as you - how do you select which teacher should write for which school. It seems like the only way you can ‘assign’ schools to teachers is to tell them specifically (in your invitation email) which schools they should upload their evaluation to. Then you have to hope that your teacher does not make a mistake. Hard to believe they left such an important aspect of your application to chance.</p>
<p>I have the exact same questions as many of you. How do you “assign” certain teacher’s recommendation to certain school? I have three. I don’t see this choice in the Common App. I asked my counselor today and she said it’s “first come first serve”, meaning, the first teacher that uploaded their recommendation letter to Naviance, that’s the first one that goes to all the colleges that require 1 recommendation letter. And the list goes on…The applicant doesn’t have a choice in assigning which teacher to which school. Is this xxxx or what? I hope this is not true.</p>
<p>For those who went through this already, please share your experience. Thank you.</p>
<p>I really hope that’s not true. The point of having different teacher recommendations for different colleges is to allow for matching subjects. Common App (if you are on this forum), please fix this asap. All you have to do allow assignment of submitted Naviance recommendations.</p>
<p>Our DS’s H.S. College Counselor gathered the seniors today and informed them that there was a problem with the Common App. - Naviance connectivity. She told the EA applicants not to panic, but their LORs were not getting through right now. She said it was a nation-wide issue that the techs were working on. She did not know when it would be resolved. (I am only reporting what I heard 2nd hand.)</p>
<p>Common app experiencing major problems </p>
<p>[Mass</a> Panic As Common App Crashes - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2013/10/14/mass-panic-as-common-app-crashes/]Mass”>Mass Panic As Common App Crashes)</p>
<p>Is anyone getting the same problem - My teachers said they uploaded but I don’t see this being reflected on Naviance. Is this linked to the CommonApp issues?</p>
<p>It seems that teachers control where their recommendations go, after uploading them in Naviance. If you want a teacher to not send their recommendation they have to go to edocs in Naviance and remove the assignment to that school. That’s a really bad set up. If anyone has been able to do it differently, please let me know.</p>
<p>waiting for an answer on this from our GC. I’ll post back when I get her input. </p>
<p>“first come first serve”, or letting the teachers control it, both seem a bit odd to me.</p>
<p>kmurph22, any more information from your GC on this? Would like to know if there is another way to do this before asking the teachers to unassign some of the colleges.</p>
<p>enefin, is what you say true? If it is true, and I hope it is, it will relive me of my stress as I too do not want the same two letter of recommendations for every college I am applying to. Is there any way to corroborate your claim?</p>
<p>How awkward to tell a teacher not to send a letter to a certain school. A student should have control of this without the teacher even having to know.</p>
<h2>This is an email from my counselor today:</h2>
<p>Hi Everyone</p>
<p>I know some of you have asked more than two teachers for letters of recommendation because some of the colleges accept more than two. It is the STUDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY to give each teacher they are requesting a letter of recommendation from a specific list of colleges that you want them to send a letter of recommendation on your behalf.</p>
<p>For example, If you request three teachers to submit a letter of recommendation and the college will only accept two, then the first two teachers who submit will be the letters the colleges receive. You MUST communicate to your teachers which colleges you would like them to submit their letter of recommendation to.</p>
<h2>If you are not sure how many teacher letters of recommendation a college/university will accept be sure to check on each of the college/university websites undergraduate admissions.</h2>
<p>Now I understand the GC’s comment about what “first come first serve means”. </p>
<p>So the way the student can control which recommendation letter go to which college is via a list you give to your teacher.</p>
<p>Now - I would like to know, what do you do with the Recommender section of the CA? Just ignore it and don’t invite or assign anyone because Naviance is the way the teacher(s) send(s) their recommendation letter?</p>
<p>JamesToberiusK, in response to your question, I am not sure that it is true. Will only find out after asking a teacher to unassign a college which I did not want to do unless there is no alternative. Does not lookalike there is. From Angerhair’s post it seems that even “unassign” may not work. That makes me really mad at the whole setup and how neither Naviance nor Common App have clear instructions.</p>
<p>never heard back from the GC on this… I think she’s still trying to find an answer.</p>
<p>angelhair’s message from GC may explain it… I just wish we had known that a few weeks ago! DS asked two teachers to write recs but didn’t specify which colleges they should be for because he didn’t know any better. First teacher has already responded & uploaded to all of the schools he has applied to. </p>
<p>I guess we’d better hope it’s a good one, because most of DS’s schools only want one rec. </p>
<p>Just poor communication on this all around.</p>
<p>It turns out that unassign does not work either. Basically the combination of Naviance and Common App kills any possibility of controlling your recommendation assignments. They have to fix it. (I know they don’t have to do anything but I can hope). Very unrealistic to assume that you pick two teachers and you are done.</p>