<p>Basically, I want to apply to several programs but I don't want to ask a teacher to fill out a million forms. I'd like to just have them write one letter and send a copy of it to every program. But it seems like they all have a form they want filled out, and it bothers me because it seems like they don't realize that a lot of people apply to more than one program.</p>
<p>Ugh I hate that too! Asking teachers to quantify a student’s skills is ridiculous IMO.</p>
<p>I doubt anyone has a list. What grade are you in? What kinds of programs are you applying to? </p>
<p>Go to the web site for each program and see if a letter is OK. If it’s unclear, email the contact person and ask.</p>
<p>I’m a high school junior.
And if I emailed them I’d have to tell them why I don’t want to do their forms and that I’m just planning to send a generic letter everywhere, which sounds bad.</p>
<p>If the web site doesn’t make clear that a letter is OK, you can email generically…you don’t have to say who you are and you don’t have to say you plan to apply to 5 zillion programs. You can say your teacher wants to know if it’s OK to, or something. </p>
<p>Also, your teacher may be willing to do more than one if it’s mostly a copy/paste type thing. Or, your guidance counselor might be able to take the teacher letter and handle putting that on the various forms for you?</p>
<p>Also, not the end of the world that any program knows you are applying to a 1-2 others.</p>
<p>What I find challenging, for my D, is figuring out when to apply to the rolling admission ones so that she doesn’t have to accept or decline until the ones that notify in spring come in. That’s tricky, even though I think she is only applying to 3 of them. Good luck!</p>