<p>My deadline is December 31st. I have completed paper copies of the Secondary School Report and Two Teacher Recommendations (filled out by my guidance counselor and two teachers) necessary for Yale. However, I hadn't yet filled out the Common App online at the time that I requested the letters of recommendation. It seems to me that I'm required to submit the e-mail addresses of my guidance counselor and one teacher in order to submit my application online, and that they then receive an e-mail requesting response as to whether or not they elected to fill out the form online or by hand. School won't resume until January 5th so the deadline will have long passed by the time they see the first notification e-mail. Will I be able to submit my application online if they haven't yet responded to the e-mail? Thanks!</p>
<p>If your counselor and teachers already submitted their recommendations via mail, then simply put their names (and positions) and don't fill out their email. If you noticed, there is no yellow circle next to the email (it is not required to be filled out). Then, it should say Offline Provider next to the teacher/counselor's name. Then, teachers/counselor don't receive the email and you're ready to submit your application.</p>
<p>hellpppppp! I don't really understand this whole online recommendation thing. My counselor forms and one of my teacher recs was sent via mail. My other teacher who is writing the rec asked to do it online. I'm applying to numerous schools using common app online. My online teacher said he filled out the form and uploaded my rec once. He seems to think that just by putting his name as my recommender on my apps it automatically sends his letter pre-uploaded letter. Is this true, or should does he have to somehow approve each school individually? I gave each school his email address. I don't know. I wish I could just hack into his email and figure it out for myself. Does anyone know how it works??</p>
<p>he just needs to write one recommendation, and he's set. however, you need to have select him as ur recommender for all of your schools. go under SCHOOL FORMS. if you see STARTED ON <date> and COMPLETED ON <date> for all of your schools, then you're good to go.</date></date></p>
<p>oh thank you! relief! I did select him as a recommender, and it does say "started on" "submitted on", but after that it is blank, there is no date for either. Is this ok?</p>
<p>We have a similar question about the teacher recommendation forms with the common application system. . .
Some of the schools require only one teacher recommendation, yet I want the three teachers on the list to have all their recommendation sent to all schools. Is there a way to use the common application system in this way or do I have to make individual requests to those teachers, specific to the school. . . probably on my own?</p>
<p>And just to clarify because this has been soooo confusing. . . Is it true that the teacher only has to write their recommendation one time and that the common application will disburse it to the schools? Any other clarifaction on this would be helpful as I have often two conflicting answers to this.</p>
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<li><p>You can't use commonapp.org to send more recs than a school requires; those would have to be submitted by postal mail. If your teachers have used commonapp.org to submit recs online, I believe they can sign in and print copies of their online recs. Give each teacher a stamped envelope pre-addressed to the Admissions Office of each college and ask them to put a copy of their letter in each envelope and drop it in the mail.</p></li>
<li><p>It is true that teachers who submit recs online only have to write them once. commonapp.org stores their submitted recs and delivers those recs via download. This is not done automatically; you must select your teachers for each college you're applying to. And of course none of this applies to recs that are sent by postal mail.</p></li>
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<p>Customization of school forms and teacher evaluations The Common Application has designed the school forms and teacher evaluations so that you fill them out only once per student. That form is then sent to each college to which the student submits. No customization is necessary since the same form goes to all schools.
<p>Thanks Geek_Mom, very helpful.
The info you provided was helpful. It seems like one or more of the teachers may have screwed things up. will have to try to sort that out this week.</p>