<p>Hello, I am a Junior at the moment and am currently working on Letters of Recommendations.</p>
<p>I have asked all of the people I wish to write them and am now getting ready to give them the paperwork necessary to do so. My school has a worksheet to fill out for your teachers in order for them to write the letters (from what I have researched this isn't normal). From what I have seen, other schools don't have anything to fill out and you just give the teacher all the information you see fit.</p>
<p>My issue is: How do you limit what letter goes to what college? I have 3 teachers who are writing my LoR but one of my top choices only wants 1 from a teacher. How do I avoid being a "thick file, thick student"?</p>
<p>You invite teachers on CommonApp and then assign them individually to each school on the CommonApp separately.</p>
<p>my question is if you can’t see the recommendation letters, how do you know which one is a stronger letter</p>
<p>you can’t. choose who you think wrote the best rec that applies to that school.</p>
<p>You do not know, as @guineagirl96 has said. They are confidential recommendations and the teachers and GC will not show them to you. Your GC may be able to help you out, here, but it’s a bit of a crap shoot. By the way, I don’t know statistics on the worksheet thing, but I do know that Naviance, which many high schools in the USA use, has this feature. DS3 and DD3 both had to complete “Brag Sheets” for her teachers and GC this past fall and two years ago. I also, as their parent, had to complete a brag sheet for them, believe it or not. For EA, they had to have all documents electronically posted on Naviance by a certain date in the early fall; RD was a bit later. Then the teachers wrote them and through Naviance they were uploaded to the Common App. It was quite remarkable and eliminated ALL envelopes, papers, etc. </p>