Recommendations

<p>How do recommendations work?</p>

<p>Are they part of the common app?
Or do you have to get different recommendations for each school?
Or are they part of the common app but colleges usually request another?</p>

<p>How many do schools usually require?</p>

<p>For schools that require their own recommendation, are the recommendations usually specific to that school, or are they just general so you can use them for multiple schools?</p>

<p>I'm just trying to figure out how many Recs I would need if applying to, say, 6-8 schools.</p>

<p>thanks,
mvmanno</p>

<p>PS - For schools, I'm talking about schools like Northwestern, Cornell, Vanderbilt, etc.</p>

<p>Here are two links that may help you:
<a href="https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/School_Forms_Overview.ppt%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/School_Forms_Overview.ppt&lt;/a>
<a href="https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/SchoolFormsFAQ.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/SchoolFormsFAQ.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Some schools that do not use the Common App require recommendations. Check those schools specifically for information, as you always should.</p>

<p>I guess what I'm asking is, schools will say that they require a teacher evaluation, but is that evaluation part of the common app? For instance Duke says that it wants two Teacher evaluations. If I have two teacher evaluations logged in my common app account, can I just use those?</p>

<p>Maybe it would help to get people who applied to schools like Duke, Cornell, Vandy, Notre Dame, Princeton, WashU, to comment on how many they had to do for each app and whether could reuse other evaluations.</p>

<p>yes, if it is a common app school, then you use those teacher recs. </p>

<p>i applied to cornell and princeton off your list, and they both required two.</p>

<p>so basicall how it works, is you set up your common app account, and then invite your two teachers. or more.. if youre letter shopping, but two is better.</p>

<p>then, you click on each school, and theres a drop down list of your teachers, and you add them to each school. so if you want A and B for cornell, but B and C for princeton, it all works out.</p>