<p>Hello,
I can't find on common application or college websites when teacher and counselor recommendations are due. Is there a set date when all of them are due at once? Can someone tell me when they are generally due? Thanks.</p>
<p>There are no standard due dates b/c this area is given more leeway by the colleges. Since it’s out of the student’s control, the colleges bug the schools/teachers for missing/late materials.</p>
<p>Most say that they want the letters sent by no later than the application deadline. They can be sent anytime before then and can even be sent before you apply.</p>
<p>The wise thing to do with rec letters is go get them now – teachers take time to write them and they particularly do not like being asked to write one when the application deadline is near.</p>
<p>When my daughter was applying to colleges a year ago, she invited her teachers to submit forms online, and also gave each teacher a hard-copy recommendation form, a stamped, addressed envelope, and a sheet with the application deadlines of all the universities, in chronological order.</p>
<p>It worked out for her.</p>