Two questions about the Recommenders section in CommonApp

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<li><p>If I've already asked my teachers write my recommendations for me and those recommendations have been postmarked by my high school counselor, what should I do? Invent them again?</p></li>
<li><p>Do they (my teachers who write my recommendations) have to submit their recommendations before the deadline of college? On the other hand, is the application done by inventing them? Or they need to submit it?</p></li>
<li><p>Is it working the same way for my counselor?</p></li>
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<p>Thank you for answering.</p>

<p>So I assume when you say postmarked they are hardcopy. Are you asking these questions for a Jan. 1, 2012 deadline? If so, I would say you are behind schedule.</p>

<p>On the common app, if your teachers are going to provide hardcopy recommendations, the common app has a form for you print out (teacher evaluation form, a PDF file) and give to the teacher. Before you print the PDF, you type in your personal info into the PDF form so you don’t have to write it by hand. You also provide the teacher with envelops that have the college address and the appropriate postage, one envelop for each college. Your teacher will make copies of the completed PDF as well as his/her letter, and put that in the envelop and drop it in the mail.</p>

<p>The same goes for your counselor … except they have a counselor form, and the counselor will also include the transcript and other school profile information as well…</p>

<p>Some schools do state that they want all the materials in by the application deadline, but it seems from CC comments that most schools do accept evaluations that roll in a little after the deadline.</p>

<p>If you have the letters in hand, then you could provide a your own version of the teacher eval form that has the same info on it (common app ID, your name, school name, teacher name, teacher subject, etc.) but this would not be the preferred method as some schools may want the official PDF form filled out by your teacher.</p>

<p>Thank you, SnowflakeVT.</p>

<p>First at all, I’m pretty sure that my teachers have already given the recommendation letters (hard copies) to my high school counselor and my counselor have already sent them to my colleges with the counselor forms and other necessary things. </p>

<p>I submitted the Common App (invited recommenders) AFTER it. Does it mean that I’m fine? Do I need to ask my teachers to re-submit it online?</p>

<p>Regards,
Harry</p>

<p>bumppppp…
Any one please help</p>

<p>If they already submitted it postal service, they have no reason to re-do it online. Plus, at this late date it would probably make them pretty upset, since they already did what you asked them to do.</p>

<p>If they submitted offline, it won’t show up in school forms section of Common App.</p>

<p>good response @SamuraiLandshark
so wat if someone barely sends in their SAT scores in today without the rush crap…would they still be considered or no?</p>

<p>Most schools will take days, if not weeks to sort through and match all of the individual pieces of supplementary materials - the recs, the scores from multiple testing agencies, the transcripts, the school reports, plus your application.</p>

<p>Most colleges will not penalize you if your scores aren’t there yet.</p>

<p>That said, if you haven’t sent these scores yet, do it today. Like right now. Send them electronically. They won’t be there for a while, but it doesn’t do any good to wait any longer.</p>

<p>I am often confused why students wait to the last possible moment to get all this stuff together. The deadlines don’t change that much from year to year. </p>

<p>Juniors - take note . You can send your test scores as you receive them to the schools on your list. You can request 4 free score reports to the colleges each time you take a test. If you don’t apply right away, they hang on to your scores for awhile, and you won’t have to resend them. </p>

<p>Also - If you know you are apply to Univ of Calif schools and taking the SAT, you can send them to one campus and they go to all of them. This isn’t going to eliminate the need to pay for scores - you may still have to do that - but at least you can send scores throughout the application process, instead of all at the last minute.</p>

<p>Thank you for your response.</p>

<p>You remind me of another question:</p>

<p>My Dec. SAT score have not come out yet (normal delay, CB said so), and CB said that it will come out next week.
Will I be fine if I get the score and send it to my college next week (Jun. 1 2012 as deadline)? Do I need to rush my report? Or should I just send my old school immediately today?</p>

<p>You can actually go into the College Board website and for that particular test “Request scores when available” for that test administration. Be careful that you don’t mistakenly just send the last scores, total. You are essentially paying for the latest scores and requesting that they are sent (and if you opt all scores, they will send all scores, including that test).</p>

<p>That way, they should be sent out instantly when available and you won’t have to keep checking for when they are going to go live.</p>