<p>My daughter's teacher says that she has completed the evaluation form and reco letter and submitted online via the common application school form.But when my daughter checked the school form Status it says the teacher recommendation as 'Started' with a date written. It doesn't say 'Submitted'. What does 'Started' mean? My daughter has already submitted her common application and suplement to the college she intend to go to by Nov 1st. Please guide/help.</p>
<p>I hope someone can come here and help us! At least yours says “started.” My son’s teachers have all said they finished his recommendations but his school forms say “not started”! He double checked their email addresses and resent the forms but nothing is showing up. He has a deadline of Nov 1st for some schools and no one at his school knows how to help him-yikes!</p>
<p>We’re having a similar problem. My daughter received a verbal OK from a trusted teacher for a reference in late September. On September 29th the request was sent to the teacher. The status is “not started.” I re-sent it today. In the meantime I’ve been bugging my daughter to send a polite e-mail to the teacher, but she hasn’t sent the e-mail. I really don’t want to step in, but time is running out.</p>
<p>I read somewhere on these boards that you can submit the Common App without the teacher recommendation being completed. The recommendation will be added to the Common App file whenever it is completed. However, once you submit the app to the school, you CAN NOT change the teacher. So if you want to pick a different teacher because the first one is non-responsive, be sure to do it before the app is submitted to the school.</p>
<p>You all may need to contact the common app directly if you know for sure the teachers have submitted their recs but it is not showing up. Did the counselor recs go through?</p>
<p>At our HS, teachers who submitted recs to the common app had to also send a paper copy to the counselor to have in the student’s file. This way counselors could send teacher recs to non common app schools along with their packet of recs and the transcripts. </p>
<p>You all should see if your school does that too. You may want to send in addressed envelopes and have the recs sent snail mail if you are running too close to your deadline.</p>
<p>My son talked to his teachers again yesterday and they have said they are finished his recommendations and have uploaded them to the common app. The app still shows “not started” and I emailed the common app for help. Not much help as they just said to make sure the teacher clicks submit! He has 3 teachers and asked them in August so it’s doubtful that all 3 are mistaken. Any other ideas of what to do? I am stressing because he has one deadline of Nov 1st. Here is what the common app help team says:Thank you for contacting the Support Team.</p>
<p>I see that they have not been submitted. If your recommenders status shows “Started” that means they have not yet submitted their recommendation. Please make sure they are clicking the “Submit Button” once they have finished filling out the recommendation. Once your recommender has submitted their recommendation, the Delete/Resend button beside the recommenders name will not be there anymore and their status will change from “Started” to “Submitted”.</p>
<p>I wrote to them and said the recommendations still show NOT started but it seems as though they didn’t get it-grrr. Any ideas or help? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Hit reply on the email the common app sent you and tell them what you just told us. I believe your reply will get to a person instead of what sounds like a canned statement.</p>
<p>I did that with a question I had last year and the next email I got sounded more personal.</p>
<p>Otherwise, did you find out if your school has the teacher’s give paper copies to the counselor? You can call the GC office and ask. If they do then I would ask the GC to snail mail the copies now while you work on this problem with the common app.</p>
<p>And for what it is worth, it may be the teachers did hit “save” instead of “submit” if that is an option for them. (I don’t know what the teacher’s screens actually look like)</p>
<p>If the GC one has gone through, you could also ask the GC if there is a save and submit button which perhaps the teachers did not press.</p>
<p>Thank you Lakemom. I did reply to the common app email but have not heard back yet. Our guidance counselor is terrible and does not answer the phone so I guess I have to go up to the school. The teachers do not give the counselors copies so that’s not a good alternative. If I can’t get this straightened out soon, I’ll give my son the paper forms to give his teachers on Monday but oh boy, what a pain! The teachers are so busy and we hate to keep bothering them but the technical stuff is not in our hands so hopefully, they will understand. I told my son that today he had to go to each teacher and try to sit with them to see if they are hitting submit instead of save. I hope he is able to do that but I would not be happy if I was a teacher being hounded. </p>
<p>The GC won’t do her forms online and she has already sent out all the score forms by snail mail. We had to provide envelopes, stamped and addressed for her by last Monday.</p>
<p>Thanks again for your reply and if I get any more info, I will pass it along here in case others have the same trouble. Geez, I would be happy if it at least said started!</p>
<p>Wow, what a pain.</p>
<p>I wonder if the teachers can still access your son’s common app through the email they were sent. Then, they could go in and print out what they uploaded. If so then you can just provide the envelopes, stamped for them to snail mail them. </p>
<p>Good luck. Let us know how it goes.</p>
<p>This is the reply from support team </p>
<p>Thank you for contacting the Support Team.</p>
<p>It means that the teacher has started on the evaluation but have not submitted it yet. It will say submitted when the teacher has submitted the evaluation. Please contact the teacher directly.</p>
<p>Again, thank you for contacting us; please do so again if you need additional assistance.</p>
<p>Regards,
The Support Team</p>
<p>Popping back in to update. NONE of his teachers have actually done his recommendations. There was no mistake or technical trouble with the common app. The common app people did reply again and said to have the teachers contact them directly if they were having trouble uploading their recommendations. </p>
<p>I am beyond furious because he asked them in AUGUST and they all said they were happy to do it. His math teacher has been his teacher for several years and loves him. His other teacher took him to Europe with a tiny school group and says she loves him too and the 3rd teacher is one of the best and he has a great relationship with her. He checked again with them on Sept 9 and they assured him they were doing it. As I said, he resent the forms again 10/15 and they all said it was done. I just couldn’t believe out of 3 teachers, none had actually done it but that’s what happened. He met with them 3 times last week and finally one says, “started” but only one. He has one early app deadline of Nov 1 so he will have to keep meeting with them to get them to do it or he’ll have to switch to rd instead. Let this be a lesson to us all-keep on those you ask for recommendations! </p>
<p>Why does it now say started if that teacher said it’s finished? Does it take time to upload? Or is this perhaps another mistake and she didn’t press submit? Thanks again for all of your help!</p>
<p>fidoprincess, I would be livid too. My son had one teacher who had 60, count them, 60 recs to do because he was such a favored teacher. He got them done by this time last year. </p>
<p>I believe once the teacher hits submit it should appear as submitted pretty close in time, not more than a day I would think. And now that it says started, you cannot resend the email.</p>
<p>Hope things work out. Let us know.</p>
<p>The status for my daughter’s recommendation is now “submitted!” Yay! We’re moving along.</p>
<p>Glad to hear ScienceGirlMom. Good luck to your daughter.</p>
<p>Hi, something strange has happened with regard to my daughter’s teachers on the School Forms page. She sent out two invitations, and so the two names were listed, with the date sent, and then two buttons for each teacher - one for delete and one for resend. </p>
<p>One of the teacher’s status says “submitted” to all the colleges on my daughter’s list but the other teacher’s status shows ‘not started’ to two of the colleges on the list while for the rest of the colleges , the status shows ‘submitted’. Today, these buttons “delete” or "resend."are missing for both the teachers. Does anyone know why? I looked through some threads and saw someone said that if the date disappeared that meant the teacher had uploaded the rec. But the date is still there, just not the other two buttons.Teacher’s status shows ‘not started’ to two of the colleges while it is submitted for the rest. why is this so? Can anyone help me?Is anyone in the same situation as mine? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Family 3, Not sure but what I think is that the two colleges still have not uploaded the teacher’s rec to their system while the rest of the college have.</p>
<p>I have posted before that I think the common app does not actually “send” documents to schools but really schools dial in and upload their documents on what ever schedule that school operates. So, if it doesn’t change in the next day or so, email the common app and tell them what you told us.</p>
<p>This is my response to Family3 below this post. CC is having trouble with the times and posting orders I guess.</p>
<p>Message from Support team.</p>
<p>This teacher has submitted the forms but your daughter has not yet assigned this teacher to those schools. She will need to do that in the School Forms section (for each school). She can add the teacher to the school by clicking the ‘Assign New Teacher’
button at the bottom of the page. She needs to do this for each school individually.</p>
<p>This is the reply from support team </p>
<p>Thank you for contacting the Support Team.</p>
<p>This teacher has submitted the forms but your daughter has not yet assigned this teacher to those schools. She will need to do that in the School Forms section (for each school). She can add the teacher to the school by clicking the ‘Assign New Teacher’
button at the bottom of the page. She needs to do this for each school individually.</p>
<p>So did your daughter not assign the teachers to those schools but she did assign them to other schools?</p>
<p>Yes, Lakemom. That’s right.</p>
<p>My question is, if I sign the release form on the common application to get the invite for my teachers, will the grades the school releases at that time be the only grades to be submitted? For example, I don’t plan to offically apply until after my 1st tri grades are in, but want my teachers to have the forms now, will only the grades up to now be submitted?</p>