<p>So my teacher didn't get my Georgetown recommendation to me until today (even after reminding her for weeks) and I just sent it with overnight mail. Should I inform admissions of this or will it be fine? Everything else in my application was sent on time.</p>
<p>Don’t blame your teacher … popular teachers are often bogged with recommendation requests. They shouldn’t be expected to do these over their breaks, so the best way to work around this is to lock down on teacher recommendations as early as possible your senior year, like in the first month of classes. Our schools asks for a 3-week lead time if needed before the holiday break, and a 5 week lead time if needed by the 1st of the year.</p>
<p>So unless Georgetown has a specific cutoff for application materials and all eval forms, you are likely okay. You can send admissions a brief email letting them know that this eval is on the way.</p>
<p>No, do not inform admissions. They practically expect recommendations to arrive late, as the student has little control over when they’re actually sent out. Plenty of recommendations are accepted weeks late.</p>
<p>Admissions officers really only care that you submit your components of the application on time and get everything else in ASAP.</p>
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<p>If I recall correctly, this is actually the case: Georgetown requires materials to be in–not postmarked–by the deadline.</p>
<p>^^^ I highly doubt G’town is going to gig you for this. Cmon. They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of man hours to get applications. They’d be the utmost in idiocy to knock applicants for a trivial admistrative matter. If so, their office manager needs to be fired.</p>
<p>That being said, no one wants people to take advantage of them (which clearly isn’t the case in this matter).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry a single iota about it.</p>