Supplemental Paper Recommendations

Applying to College
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<p>I have a second teacher recommendation that I wish to send in to colleges, but the teacher who wrote it is a bit of a dinosaur, and so I have it in paper form and no way to contact him until school starts again on the third. What I want to do is talk to him, get him to make (or make him I suppose) an email and direct the common app queries there, where I can mark them offline and be on my merry way.</p>

<p>My issue here is that a few of my applications are due on the first, so I need some advice on how to indicate to colleges that I'm going to send in a second recommendation by mail?</p>

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<p>Make xerox copies. Place in envelopes. Mail to the schools. Not every thing needs to be in before the deadline. You’re fine. thank your teacher. Don’t bother him to upload it.</p>

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<p>Ok, so then the follow-up question:</p>

<p>1) Would it be safe or smart to make a new email account, direct the commonapp queries there, mark him down as an offline provider, and then once I see him again tell him to include that in the packet he gives to future recommendees?
2) I need to include the Common Application teacher recommendation cover letter (<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013TeacherEval1_download.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013TeacherEval1_download.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) in the envelope, right?</p>

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<p>1) He obviously doesn’t want to submit online recs. </p>

<p>2) People applied and got admitted to colleges before the common app. I’m sure you can convey the ID info to the school w/o printing the Comm App cover letter. The purpose of the cover letter is to accompany your docs – use it if you want. Don’t if you don’t. It’s a tool – not a passkey.</p>