<p>Hey I'm looking at the CUNY Honors app right now but i'm rather confused with what they want for the recommendation. Do my teachers have to send their recommendation via email? I am almost sure that both my recommenders do not email recs...</p>
<p>i'd appreciate it if someone could clarify this business. thanks!</p>
<p>bump 10char</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that CUNY will send the rec to your teacher's email (that you provided on the application). I think that CUNY is doing everything online this year. So I think you have to get your recommenders' email addresses.</p>
<p>I understand that, so there's no option of having the recommendations sent by mail? One of my teachers says that she doesn't do email recommendations, and i can only imagine my other teacher would be hesitant about it, too.</p>
<p>i figured i might be able to send the recommendations along with my transcript, maybe?</p>
<p>I am a teacher as well as a mom of a senior and was asked last week by a student to write a recommendation for a student applying to the CUNY Honors program.</p>
<p>here's how it works: student provides the teacher's email address to admissions, admissions contacts the teacher, teacher can either a) submit the rec, b) decline, or c) choose to send a paper one to an address provided. So theoretically there should be no worries.</p>
<p>In reality there were a few problems: I never received the email at my school's email (which is of course the one I prefer for professional matters) - the server for the school must have thought it was spam or junk and not delivered it. The student was fairly persistient and contacted the admission office and changed the address to my personal address (couldn't do it online). When I tried to cut and paste the rec into the space, it wouldn't allow it (error message about characters?) so I had to retype the whole thing.
It was a pain in the #@%.</p>
<p>It got done, but left me wondering how many teachers would bother with so many obstacles. So through no fault of the student, by making this harder some students may be penalized. </p>
<p>As a parent I am concerned with this whole trend by admissions offices to make things easier on themselves (electronic submissins preferred) regardless of the students, teachers ease.
Shouldn't it be what the student is comfortable with? I know many teachers who regard this whole recommendation thing a chore and will refuse to jump through hoops the adcoms seem to be putting up.</p>