<p>Do you have to file anything before with the school before sending in the teacher recs? Do they need the fee first? If you just send it in how will they know who you are if you never filed anything beforehand? Help me please. Thanx.</p>
<p>what i've heard is that the rec will open your file for you (since it has your name on it), but i want an answer for this once and for all.</p>
<p>On all of my teacher rec forms it has a place for my SSN. I believe that is the basis of your file, so as soon as you send in a form (test scores/app/anything) it will have that SSN attached to it and they start your file. </p>
<p>Still, I'm going to call the schools after sending in my recs (which will be the first thing they receive) to make sure. I suggest you do the same.</p>
<p>ok thanx. 1010101</p>
<p>This comes up every year and has come up repeatedly this year, in fact. They open a file for you when they receive anything. Everyone says this and no one has ever reported any experience to the contrary.</p>
<p>Colleges are used to this because recommendations (and test scores too) commonly precede the actual applications.</p>
<p>If something gets waylaid (which can happen no matter the order things are sent in), the college will tell you that your application is incomplete. We had this happen with test scores at two colleges and one recommendation at another. Never did figure out where the fault was. But it didn't make any difference. The colleges told us, we arranged for duplicates, problems solved.</p>