<p>The CommonApp website says: "Note: Please do not mix-and-match your application, supplement, and payment between online and paper submission. Either submit the application, supplement and payment (or fee waiver) online, or submit them all by mail. "</p>
<p>Well, I am planning on submitting my application online. However, my counselor wants to do the secondary report and recommendation via paper. Is that fine?</p>
<p>The secondary school report and recs are not part of your application, supplement, or payment. They can be submitted in a different format.</p>
<p>thanks so much.</p>
<p>And is there any difference between writing and typing the school report?</p>
<p>You mean the top part that you fill out? It doesn't really matter.</p>
<p>Yes, okay. Thanks.</p>
<p>Is it okay for my current (new) counselor to write a recommendation, and then get my old counselor who moved to write another counselor form? I know on the common app. you can only invite one counselor. I wonder how this would work... It would be a supplement recommendation but could she fill in the tallies also or is she only able to write a rec.</p>
<p>Of course it's okay! The old GC will be a supplemental rec unless they have a deal with the new GC to write recs for certain students (this is pretty common).</p>
<p>Dean J - my son asked one teacher to write one of his recs last year (after being his student for 2 years). The teacher agreed - and about a month later announced that he was leaving teaching to complete his advanced degree. Teacher wrote the letter of rec, apparently made 10 copies that are sealed in envelopes held by guidance counselor. Now...do we need to get that former teacher to fill out the Common App form or is that not entirely necessary? Or should that former teacher's letter be an extra rec & son find another current teacher?</p>
<p>Dean J -- the common app sa;ys that teacher and counselor recommendations need to be all online or all offline. My daughter has already gotten a few teachers to do their recommendations online but the guidance department seems to want to do everything manually. Do we need to go back to the teachers and get them to redo manually as well?</p>
<p>I am reposting here too. Crazy high school, counselor and now a teacher refuse to do recs online. I have sent the counselor forms in. I can not find the insturctor/teacher rec. forms, even after the teacher has opted to complete off-line (which I believe should have prompted the pdf files). On the advice of CC I created a fake app and could not get the pdf files that way either. Can someone get me these files so this can get done. Thanks. Can someone also convince these schools that online is soooooo much easier for everyone involved!</p>
<p>Went to a college site and instead of actually trying to fill it out, indicated printing it. All the forms are then listed for printing! Thanks for the psychology assistance.</p>
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I think this depends on the school. If this was for UVa, just the letter would be fine.
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Where is this stated? I would like to bring it to Common App's attention because they will not forward recs that are beyond the required number. </p>
<p>If you apply to UVa through Common App and have a teacher write a rec through Common App's online system, they will not send it to us because we do not require a teacher's recommendation (it's "encouraged", but not required). Therefore, they can't state the above (all online). They simply don't allow it in their system.</p>
<p>The requirement in the common app which says that teacher and counselor recommendations need to be all online or all offline is in the Help section under School Forms and then answering the question all online or all offline. The specific quote is "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. If there is a part of the online process that the counselor or teacher is unable to complete, the only choice is to opt out and do the form on paper. "</p>
<p>Thanks, Sharon. We've been back and forth with Common App on this and it helps to have a specific link to show them.</p>
<p>Dean J: Did you ever get a conclusive answer to the problem with mixing online and offline recs?</p>