I just found out today that my school counselor has submitted the wrong recommendation letter. Since she already submitted the form, I cannot remove it from my application. This is also the recommendation that my early action college has received.
What can I do to solve this problem? Contact each and every admissions office? Isn’t it too late in the early admissions process for the admissions office to consider a new (correct) recommendation? And isn’t there still a big risk of the colleges bypassing this mistake and reading the old (wrong) recommendation, given that some schools receive up to 50,000 applications during RD?
Panicking greatly and afraid that this will ruin my admission chances. Some advice would help.
You can explain the issue to the teacher whose letter of rec should have been submitted and ask them to mail it to the schools. Be sure to provide envelopes that are already addressed and stamped with your ID information on them, so you aren’t making additional work for your teacher. Then send an email to the schools telling them that the wrong LOR was sent and that the correct LOR is being sent by mail. It will probably delay the review of your file for EA since they can’t review until the file is complete - or they may not see the email/new letter before doing the review. That’s a risk that you can’t control for. But it can be fixed for the other schools’ RD.
Ideally, if the GC made the mistake, they will offer to contact the school to explain the error. But if they didn’t make the mistake - or are simply too busy to get involved - the one where you take charge is your other best option.
@N’sMom
How do you recommend that I fix the situation for RD? Should I send in the new recommendation letter before the regular deadline?
Also, I’m an international so sending by mail is not really an option…