<p>I am trying to get a supplementary recommendation letter from a professor whom I did internship with last summer. Do i just assign him in common app as recommenders? Will he be able to submit the recommendation letter through the common app or do I have to have him individually mail the schools?</p>
<p>If the school allow additional recommender, you may invite him under that section. It will send him a link by e-mail with instruction to submit the letter.</p>
<p>Although inviting him/her through common app is a possibility, when you discuss it with your prof you might find him less than enthusiastic. From what I’ve seen many profs are reluctant to submit through the common app. If you are applying to the prof’s school, he or she might only want the rec to go to that particular school and in that case he is likely to send the hard copy of the rec directly to admissions. Otherwise, there are two solutions. One is for him to email his rec directly to your admissions counselor at each school (and you would want to contact your counselor to ask about the advisability of this in advance). Alternatively, you could ask him for several recs in sealed envelopes with his signature across the flap (to prevent tampering). You can then contact your schools to be sure they’ll accept an additional rec sent them by mail.</p>
<p>In any case for any recommender (perhaps except counselor), you need to ask the person and get his agreement first before inviting him/her on CommonApp.</p>
<p>niceday, it’s an interesting point you made. DS also sent a summer intern professor a request through comm app but he has yet started after a couple of weeks. DS has previously e-mailed him and he agreed to write a LOR. I wonder if your statement applied DS’ situation. So why “many profs are reluctant to submit through the common app”? Doesn’t doing so save them a lot of time?</p>