I requested my recommender to write for two schools. However, she wrote “I recommend (my name) to attend school A” on the recommendation, but I submitted the recommendation to BOTH school A and school B.
Now I’ve just found out, what can I do about it? The recommendation to school B is already submitted! I would be rejected for sure! What can I do?? Please help, thanks! I can’t seem to remove the assignment from school B!!!
It’s been sent; there’s no way to unsend it. I feel like this is worth emphasizing:
Recommenders are explicitly told in their instructions not to tailor their letter to an individual school. If they do that, it’s because they didn’t read carefully enough and/or deliberately disregarded what the Common App told them.
The best you can do is send an email or letter explaining the situation and apologizing, and consider asking your recommender to do the same.
I don’t think the school will blame you for the recommender’s mistake. They know that recommenders write for multiple schools. Talk to your school’s college counselor.
@evan111 thanks! I’ve requested my recommender to send a letter to update the recommendation. do you still think it’s necessary for me to send another letter to apologize as well?
@green678 thanks! but i don’t think my university counselor is very helpful 
if I do talk to him though, what course of action could he follow to help me out?
He could contact the college to explain the situation.
@econsftw The mistake was theirs, not yours, so if they’re taking steps to correct it, I wouldn’t worry about it.
@evan111 thanks! yep, they’ve emailed the university with the updated reference, so that’s good
Let your recommender contact the schools and make the necessary amendments. Such errors are not uncommon, schools usually understand that recommenders have a lot of letters to write and occasionally make lapses.
This happened to me–but one rec addressed to a specific school was sent to every school I applied to. I didn’t even have my teacher contact anybody to fix it. From what I can tell it didn’t hurt me, I was accepted by the schools I expected to be accepted by (and even some I thought were far, far reaches) and was rejected by schools way out of my league. I think admissions offices understand that you had absolutely no part in that mistake.