Recommendations for transfer admissions question

Transfer Students
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Hi,

Currently, I am planning to transfer colleges. For some of the schools I’m applying to, they only require one recommendation but for other schools (the more competitive ones), they require two recommendations. I currently go to a school in which class sizes are pretty huge, for some of the classes I’m taking, so there is essentially minimal connection between students and the professor. Fortunately, I have one professor who knows me well, but I’m trying to decide on which other professor I will ask for my second rec.

My question is : When recommenders send recommendation letters to colleges via the common application, could the applicant select which specific colleges a recommendation letter is sent to, or is a recommendation letter simply sent to ALL the colleges an applicant applies to?

Using Cornell (1 rec only) and Harvard (req. 2 recs) for example;
-teacher x: I know very well
-teacher y-don’t know very well

so obviously for Harvard, I need to send both recs, but for Cornell could I choose to just send the recommendation for teacher x?

Thanks in advance!

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Yes, you can select which recommendation goes to which college on the Common App. Under “recommendations” you select from your list of recommendations which you want to send (and how many).