Teacher Recommendation????

Applying to College
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<p>I have many questions about the letters of recommendation of teacher?</p>

<p>I would like to know the difference between teacher evaluation and teacher's letter of recommendation.</p>

<p>Also how to send those teacher letters of recommendations and letters of evaluation? Can they be sent online along with my application via the CommonApp website?</p>

<p>Are there any special deadlines for those teacher letters of recommendation and evaluation?</p>

<p>Can I (student) send those teacher evaluations and teachers letters of recommendation or only the teacher have to?</p>

<p>Any response is appreciated. Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>I believe that the teacher evaluation is where your teacher ranks you and your skills. For example: how often does s/he participate in class. The recommendation letter is more specific. There is a spot on the common app for your teacher to submit their rec. You invite them to fill out the form and they submit it online. I think the deadline varies from school to school and on if you are applying ed, ea, or rd. Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>Two different names for the same thing. If you look at the form on the Common Application (<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013TeacherEval1_download.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013TeacherEval1_download.pdf&lt;/a&gt;), you’ll see that the teacher is asked both to do a check-the-box evaluation of the student and to write a recommendation letter.</p>

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<p>After you begin your application online using the Common Application, you can invite teachers to complete their evaluations online. Once they have finished their evaluation forms, you, the applicant, can designate which teacher recommendations go to which colleges and universities. </p>

<p>Or, if you or your teachers want to be more last-century, you can give your teachers a paper copy of the evaluation form that they can complete by hand. (You will have to fill in some information at the top before you give it to them.) Also give each teacher an envelope addressed to each university (with postage already on it). The teacher can complete the evaluation once, copy it as many times as necessary, and send a copy to each university.</p>

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<p>Teacher recommendations are due when applications are due. Colleges and universities know, however, that applicants can’t completely control whether their teachers meet the deadline, so they are usually somewhat lenient about the deadline for teacher recommendations.</p>

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<p>The teacher should do it. If the teacher gives a recommendation back to you, for you to send to the college or university, he or she should give you the recommendation in a sealed envelope, and sign his or her name across the sealed flap.</p>

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<p>If the teacher gives a soft copy, could i myself attach that soft copy with my common app online?</p>

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<p>If the teacher does the recommendation online, Common App will notify you when the recommendation is complete. You’ll never get an electronic copy of the recommendation from Common App; the recommendation is saved on their servers. But you will decide which teachers’ recommendations are included with each application that you submit using the Common App.</p>

<p>Your teacher could, I suppose, give you an electronic copy of the recommendation, but you can’t really do anything with that (except, of course, for getting to read what they said about you–which is really what every college applicant wants!). Colleges and universities will want the recommendations sent with the Common App, from the Common App, and Common App will attach the recommendations that you select to your application when you send it.</p>

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<p>OK. This means that even the teacher should register on the CommonApp website?</p>

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<p>You’ll give your teacher’s name and email address to the Common App. Then the Common App will send the teacher email instructing him or her how to do the evaluation online.</p>

<p>That’s all I know about it.</p>

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<p>@Sikorsky Thank you very much for the help.</p>

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<p>My pleasure. Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>One more, @Sikorsky When i asked my teachers for letters of recommendation, they are saying that they should not write it, only the Head Of the Departments should write it with their designation on the department letter head.</p>

<p>Is it good to write the recommendation letter by my teacher who taught me and know me well or the HOD (because of the department letter head and his stamp) who doesn’t know me at all and not taught for me. One teacher said me that he’ll be talking to the HOD and say to him about me and then make him write the letter. Is it fair?</p>

<p>Thanks again in advance.</p>

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<p>That isn’t the way it’s done here in America. Colleges really want the letters from somebody who has taught you and who knows you well, rather than from somebody who has an important position.</p>

<p>Of course, there’s a problem with telling your teachers that: they’re your teachers! They’re used to knowing more than you, and very often, they want the respect that belongs to them. </p>

<p>Maybe you can show them this advice, which comes from the admissions office at MIT: [Writing</a> Recommendations | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/writingrecs]Writing”>How to write good letters of recommendation | MIT Admissions). I think it makes it pretty clear that MIT wants letters from people who really know the applicant. Other American colleges and universities do, too.</p>

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<p>In addition to the MIT instructions for recommendations, here is what the CA says on their Teacher Evaluation form:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013TeacherEval1_download.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/2013TeacherEval1_download.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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