<p>My teacher had added a recommendation to my CommonApp in October. The problem I have now is that I wanted to give him extra time to make it better for when I send in my application for the January 1st deadline, but I can't remove his old recommendation. Is there a way to remove his old recommendation and update it or do I have to create a new account?</p>
<p>Same here, I’d like to know how you remove a teacher recommendation. I accidentally added the wrong teacher to a school…</p>
<p>Also, is it true that if your counselors can only do offline recommendations & transcripts, you have to do every teacher recommendation offline too? Or does it really not matter?</p>
<p>“The teacher and counselor recommendation process is to be completed either all online or all offline. The college admissions offices do not want to receive the forms online and then receive paper evaluations and transcripts on paper.”</p>
<p>^This is bad, because I’ve already asked all of my teacher to do it online…and “added” them to the schools too, and I can’t remove them apparently…so, is it ok if my counselor sends her stuff by mail, and my treachers do it online? (Has anyone done this)</p>
<p>My counselor had to send it by offline while teachers did theirs online. I have just submitted them so I don’t know what’s going to happen. Counselor knows this and he didn’t say anything about it so I think it’s fine</p>
<p>Once your teacher submits the Teacher Evaluation on your behalf it’s done. It can’t be changed later. </p>
<p>It is absolutely okay for your counselor to submit his or her forms via paper while your teachers complete their forms online. It is not okay for a particular teacher to submit part of the information online and part via paper.</p>
<p>Wildly05: I think your teacher has to create a new account (instead of Bob Smith he can make a new one, with an new email address, and the name of Robert Smith). Then the CA will think he’s an entirely different person. My son did this.</p>
<p>MistiRose: (first question): If you delete a college from “my colleges” (SAVING ANY ESSAYS FIRST!!!) and then re-add it, the recommenders are gone and need to be re-selected from your list of teachers. (second question): no clue</p>
<p>MacGyver: great name! But see a combination of the first two for a solution that doesn’t involve (shudder) paper and stamps.</p>
<p>GeekMom - Thanks! I want to offer some clarification:</p>
<p>Wildly05 - If the form submitted by your teacher the first time is really horrible, you can add them a second time using a different email address. I would definitely clear this with the teacher before you send the invitation. That teacher is doing you a tremendous favor by recommending you, so you have to trust him or her and be respectful of asking for more of their valuable time. <em>Before</em> you submit your application you can contact Common App Support and they can disassociate the original teacher evaluation from your unsubmitted colleges so you can associate the new teacher evaluation. Simply sending another different teacher evaluation from the same teacher is poor form and would probably not be well received by the college.</p>
<p>MistiRose - Regarding paper forms, a clarification. If possible, your teachers and counselors should submit their materials online. That is the best and most reliable way to get that information to the colleges. Both you and your counselor will be able to track when the forms are submitted and downloaded by the colleges. My comment about paper was only to indicate that if you have a counselor or teacher who wants/needs to submit on paper, your other teachers or counselor may still submit online.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help.</p>
<p>@MacGyver - I respect all the effort my teacher has put into writing a recommendation for me. I am well aware that writing recommendations (although it is a common practice) is not part included in a teacher’s salary. I simply wanted to give my teacher more time to perfect his recommendation, because I know I gave him 3 weeks or a little bit more to complete my first recommendation for Emory Scholars. Since I am now applying to some Ivies, I just wanted to make sure he had enough time. I’ve heard that Ivies are big on teacher recs. so I just wanted to make sure that my teacher recommendation was among the best the admissions committees have seen.</p>
<p>It’s easiest if the Common App has not yet been submitted anywhere (not sure what happens then.) One of my S’s teacher’s “jumped the gun” and submitted his LOR before S gave him info on his summer internship, which he hoped to have noted on the LOR. Once Common App and teacher were advised of the issue, teacher resubmitted with no problem. We could tell something new was received at Common App since the submit date had changed to a later one.</p>
<p>I have a question too, for one of my teachers it sometimes says that his status is downloaded and sometimes it says that it is submitted. Why is this and how do I fix it?</p>
<p>ashleyL: I don’t think it’s a problem. I think “downloaded” means the college downloaded it.</p>
<p>MacGyver/MistiRose: I have the same problem. One of my teachers and counselor mailed the forms - high school policy. Another teacher from a previous high school submitted it online. I noticed what MistiRose quoted too, and I sent two e-mails to CommonApp without receiving a useful answer. I also sent e-mails to some of my colleges, without getting a response yet.</p>