Sending recommendations before submitting app

Applying to College
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I'm applying to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Caltech, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, and New York, and I'm not sending off my Common Applications till November at the earliest. </p>

<p>If I finish working with a teacher a lot earlier than December, can I ask them to send off the recommendations without me having submitted the rest of the Common App yet? Or can I ask them to write the recommendations, but then give them to me so I can send them off with the rest of my app much later in the year?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>You can send recommendation letters before you submit the common app. However, I wouldn’t send them until after the summer.</p>

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<p>I’ll finish working with one of the possible recommenders before the summer ends (I’m homeschooled, you see, and so I don’t have an ordinary timetable). Why wouldn’t you send them beforehand?</p>

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<p>Also, should I waive my right to see the recommendation?</p>