<p>I am providing the envelopes, stamps, and school addresses for my teachers. What should I put down as the return address? Thanks to those that respond in advance.</p>
<p>We put our address label, figuring the teacher could change it by putting their own if they were so inclined. This way, if the letter got lost in snail mail, it would be returned to us.</p>
<p>as the teacher what they want to do</p>
<p>Your school may have a policy on this. If not, leave it up to the teachers is my advice. My kids didn't put return addressed down; I don't know if their recommenders filled anything in or not.</p>
<p>Assuming you have signed the waiver about not seeing the recommendation, I don't think it looks good to have your return address on the envelope. It could look like you saw it first, are the one sending it, or are trying to see it. There was another thread on this fairly recently; you might see if you can find it. </p>
<p>If a recommendation is missing, the school will tell you. It is unlikely that the address a college is using for its application materials is one that the local post office will not know and is unable to deliver something to. So I don't think it is a good enough reason to put your own address down.</p>
<p>You can always give your teachers self-addressed postcards to be included with the recommendations, to be sent back by the colleges when received. I've heard that suggested on CC and it seems like colleges cooperate and send them back.</p>
<p>"I don't think it looks good to have your return address on the envelope"</p>
<p>I sent mine myself. The teachers filled the forms, signed them, put them in envelopes, selaed them and stamped and signed across the flap and gave it to me. I put all the reco's topgether and couriered it together o the US</p>
<p>I didn't put down return address, the teachers didn't bother to put theirs, either. But all envelopes have reached (I can track the status online). Just make sure you put enough stamps.</p>
<p>In your case, Antarius, it wouldn't make a difference, true, because they were in separate, sealed envelopes. However, the original question dealt with addressed, stamped envelopes given to teachers with the expectation that they would be mailing the recommendations themselves directly to the school. That was what I was addressing.</p>
<p>I certainly didn't mean to imply that the way you did it would imply anything not-so-good. The confidentiality was clearly not breached.</p>
<p>That said, I'm not sure that the secretaries that open the envelopes save them or note what the return addresses say. So if anyone has already done it with their own address on there, I wouldn't worry too much about it. I was just giving prospective advice.</p>
<p>I've been surprised that a good majority of the students on here never even get to see the teacher recommendation/evaluation before they are sent out.</p>
<p>At my kids' school, they see the evaluation before it gets sent. They give the teachers a list of their activities and the teachers incorporated them into their evaluation. </p>
<p>The guidance counselor then collects everything and sends off what is needed to a certain school with their own recommendation.</p>
<p>Actually, I think that could well be the general rule. Why else would there be a request to waive your right to see the recommendations if you matriculate at the school? If people usually see them before that, what difference would it make?</p>
<p>With my two kids, one recommender volunteered a copy of the recommendation. But this was only after one school said it hadn't been received and a duplicate (or a close approximate anyway) sent to the school. Maybe that person thought she had messed up and was trying to make amends by showing us her nice letter?</p>
<p>Colleges are looking for confidential evaluation from the teachers. If teachers only praise the student and show that recommendation to the student, perhaps it doesn't serve the purpose. Recs lose their meaning just as inflated grades do. Well, SAT and ACT are still good criteria to separate wheat from the chaff...</p>
<p>"I certainly didn't mean to imply that the way you did it would imply anything not-so-good. The confidentiality was clearly not breached."</p>
<p>I didnt mean it as though it was offensive. I was simply stating what I did in a different way... tis' cool</p>
<p>peace :)</p>