<p>Hi guys I was wondering if for the common app we had to invite a teacher to EVERY college we apply to for them to send a recommendation letter which I think would be quite laborious. Can someone please answer this question?</p>
<p>I am not sure of the true answer to this but I am assuming if you are applying early decision somewhere then the recs may want to include reasons you would be a good fit for that particular school. The regular decision recs I am assuming could be more generic and one for all. I would like to know the definitive answer to this question, too.</p>
<p>i was also wondering the same thing… it would be hard for teachers to rate me/upload letters for all the colleges I have on the common app</p>
<p>No. When you invite a teacher, that recommendation can be used for every Common App school you apply to, you don’t need to invite them for every single college. Incidentally, I’ve never seen a college ask for a university-specific recommendation. </p>
<p>OH that makes so much more sense - sorry I should have totally seen that…
So once you invite a teacher they will fill out one rating/rec letter and then they will automatically be applied to the schools we want them to recommend me… right?</p>
<p>Well, the teacher is the one who needs to send them to the school (as in, select the school and press submit/send); it’s not automatic, so make sure that the recommendation is actually there. </p>
<p>At least that’s what I think, based on what happened to me like a week ago. My teacher accidentally only sent her recommendation to 3/5 of my common app schools (so it didn’t get automatically sent to every school on Common App). I asked her about it later and she sent the other 2 in (it only took a minute or so) and Common App had it within seconds. She just had to choose the school and submit it. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>no your teacher will have to write a generic recommendation, which you will use for all your colleges</p>