<p>Just a short question.</p>
<p>Princeton is a common-app school. Do you guys think that it is fine to have the teacher send in the common app recommendation?</p>
<p>It seems like an undue burden when asking for so many letters to try and individualize some.</p>
<p>But, I don't want to commit a major Faux-pas.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>i think pton is pretty stubborn about their recs and want their specific one...they dont offer the common application ones. theirs is more thorough and in-depth</p>
<p>oops, too late. they got the common from me.</p>
<p>shrek, are you serious???</p>
<p>I thought Pton really encouraged the use of the common app. I even recall emailing them asking which rec form I should use and they said either one is fine.</p>
<p>I'm sure the common ones will be fine...I wouldn't worry. </p>
<p>Lol...my GC gave me the teacher recs to send out. I was completely "honorable" and didn't read them, but it's a good thing my mom wasn't so high-minded...all of the recs still had "Princeton University" in the text. So I'm off to go pick up the corrected copies and deliver them to the teachers to sign.....</p>
<p>[/latest chapter in the seemingly unending application saga]
<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Kebree, this might be a dumb question, but I thought you were homeschooled? How do you have a GC & teachers? lol</p>
<p>I only started "homeschooling" (I did full-time dual enrollment at U. of KY) this past semester, so my HS transcript was sent by the school I attended until I finished my junior year.</p>
<p>Ohhhh haha, thanks for clarifying. I was a bit confused there ;)</p>
<p>Haha....I'm still cracking up over this...it can't get much better than:
[quote]
"Dear Yale Admission Committee:
I have no reservations in recommending K.B. for admission to Princeton University..."
[/quote]
Wow. Just.......wow. Muahahahaha.</p>
<p>Ok.... my teachers better not have done that......</p>
<p>LOL yeah it's a good thing I'm sending the recs myself too... cuz teachers can't help showing me the text and asking "you think this will do? or you want me to mention something else?"</p>
<p>Half of the people I know are almost writing their own recs! :D</p>
<p>But the school report was done differently. I was asked to go out of the room while teachers and the GC discussed and wrote a draft rec for me...</p>
<p>I don't think it'll matter. My high school uses a recommendation form of it's own and no university or college had a problem about that. And I don't think top schools like Princeton would reject a great student just because his/her teacher used the common app form and accept a less prospective student whose teacher used the Pton form. Don't worry and concentrate on the other parts of the applications:)</p>
<p>To be part of the Common App. consortium, each school must agree to treat the common app equal to their own app which would include recommendation forms. See the common app web site.</p>
<p>I actually thought Princeton was encouraging use of common app for everything?</p>
<p>Well, I used the common app.</p>
<p>I was asking for 9 reccomendations to be sent, and two schools weren't part of the common-app, so I figured that it would be too much to ask. </p>
<p>I believe that Princeton wants the best students, and so the form used to send a reccomendation seems inconsequential, but then again, it's Princeton...</p>