<p>I don't understand it. Should I ask a couple teachers for rec and then copy them to all the colleges I'm applying or should the teacher write half a dozen rec, each specificaly for each college?
And if I do copy them, how am I supposed to do it without breaking the whole "I waive my rights to read this rec etc..."
And just to complicate it more, I am an international, so my recommendations will have to be translated, once my teachers are not very good with english. Can I ask an english teacher to do this or does it has to be official?
Oh im so lost at this. Help, please?</p>
<p>Just tell your teachers to print more copies</p>
<p>As for the language barrier, I guess your teachers will have to handle that task. However, translators aren’t always accurate.</p>
<p>No. Your teacher only writes one recommendation and you make copies and send it for each college. If language is going to be a issue, get a English teacher to translate it. Make note it was translated and send both a original copy in your language and a translated version to your colleges.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that some colleges have recommendation forms that are unique to that college. Take a look at the websites of the ones you are interested in.</p>
<p>Always keep a copy for yourself.</p>
<p>I believe the recommendations are to be sent by the teacher directly to the school and NOT seen by the student. Recommendations given to the student by the teacher are in a sealed envelope with the teachers signature across the seal. At least that was the way it worked for my son and daughter, both in college. So they never saw the recommendations.</p>
<p>But how am I supposed to handle copies and translations without seeing the recommendations?</p>
<p>We gave the teachers envelopes already addressed to the schools (and stamped). For a teacher that did not want that, we gave a typed list of schools/addresses and gave her stamps.</p>
<p>We never saw the teacher recs or handled them in any way.</p>
<p>Yes, the teachers recs are supposed to be sent by them, sealed with name across the seal etc. The thing is these blanket rules do not fit every bodies situation. For example; teacher makes a mistake and gives rec with wrong students name.(true story) In my daughter’s case the college lost the rec, and needed a new one. They asked that it be faxed, (Not by teacher but student). We opened it and sent it. Though there are good reasons for the way that recs should be sent, there are exceptions(I believe yours is one). We were blessed with the best GC and rec teachers. Though the teachers new which colleges they were going to, they did not know which scholarships. They simply addressed them “To The Scholarship Committee”. My daughter just asked for x amount of recs for college, and x amount for scholarships. The teachers and GC cooperated fully and new when they needed to be opened. When we needed to fax them we did. On a side note. There is know way I would have let my daughter blindly send a rec, that was so important to her future. Thank God we were all on the same page as a team. Do what you need to do to make it happen.</p>
<p>So I can see the recs and sign the waiver thing? I mean, won’t the colleges find out?
Its just that my teachers and principal aren’t use to writing recommendations, since I’m the first student in 130 years (litarally) to apply for american colleges, so I fear they will be a bit lost.</p>
<p>(stupid question, but everyone at CC is so helpful and friendly, i’ll ask it anyway) The sender’s address in the recs envelope shoul be the teacher’s address, the school’s or mine? Or should there be no sender’s address at all?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about addresses. Just drop them in the ap envelope. Your problem is the translation. Is there anyone at your school that can translate the recs for you? If the answer is yes. Just get the recs from the teachers, and give them to the translator, have the tranlator sign as the school person that translated the documents. Put each original and the translation in an separate envelope with the translators signature across the seal, if you feel you need too. Colleges will understand exactly what was done and why.</p>