<p>So, as I have been for the past few weeks, I logged on to USC admissions page to look at my status or if new windows popped up. To my surprise, my status changed from being on "begin reviewed" to "forwarded", but I was just looking around the site and opened up the submitted documents page. and I noticed...my teacher recs were NOT submitted! I called my high school counselor and she told me there may have been a chance she dropped the ball on that (AGAIN I DIDN'T RECEIVE A PURDUE SCHOLARSHIP B/C SHE FORGOT TO SEND MY TRANSCRIPT THERE AND TO IU BLOOMINGTON)
it's probably too late now, and my own fault for not checking that page before but I'm wondering...has anyone gotten in without a teacher rec? or would it help to like...last minute fax it in or something?</p>
<p>If your teacher recs were not sent and you have copies of them, FAX them yourself right now with a short explanation.</p>
<p>If your counselor was supposed to have sent them, I would also head directly to the principal’s office with your parent and insist that they FAX them from the school’s FAX machine while you are there. Do this in ADDITION to FAXing them yourself.</p>
<p>I gotta tell you, if what you are describing happened to my child… not only the principal, but the superintendant, the local newspaper, EVERYBODY would know about this. I would be at the next school board meeting to demand answers.</p>
<p>I am very sorry this has happened. FAX it in NOW.</p>
<p>After you FAX it, also CALL USC and tell them what happened. </p>
<p>USC contact info:</p>
<p>Admission and Financial Aid Counseling Center:
(213) 740-1111</p>
<p>Office of Admission Fax Number:
(213) 821-0200</p>
<p>Also insist the principal call USC admissions.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice! i already sent an email to the teacher, but my school counselor was supposed to send everything, and she already forgot to send transcripts in for in state schools i applied to…thank god they at least accepted me anyway</p>
<p>Maybe it’s under secondary school reports? Did the it actually say you were missing letters of
rec on the site or did u just not see it there. Cuz on the site there’s a section for missing docs</p>
<p>Teachers recs aren’t even required! I wouldn’t worry about it unless it adds something important to your application.</p>
<p>I think you’re required to have at least one letter of rec, SamIAm. Some schools require more.</p>
<p>I believe you needed a counselor rec but not a teacher rec…?</p>
<p>USC only wants a counselor rec iirc</p>
<p>Correct. Teacher recommendations are not required for USC, although the counselor must submit one.</p>
<p>OHH, I see what you’re saying. I thought you meant you didn’t send in the counselor rec.</p>
<p>I think I am having a flashback to last December 1st… For the info of possible future applicants: USC requires ONE letter of recommendation which may be from a either teacher or a counselor. <a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/Form4_2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/Form4_2010.pdf</a> They will aso accept and consider additional letters of recommendation. </p>
<p>My reading of the OP was that the counselor had not submitted recommendations to USC (or to Purdue). If “a” recommendation was sent to USC, that is all that is required.</p>
<p>By the way, OP, I can kind of commiserate with you. My counselor didn’t send my midyear grades to my common app schools until two days ago (even though I reminded her in late January)… NYU let me in, but I dunno if Carnegie Mellon or Northwestern will be as nice. >_></p>
<p>I think I can top all of you; it appears that my counselor didn’t send in my (and a few students that I know of) GPA verification for the Cal Grant. I don’t think I would have gotten anything, but I feel sorry for the students who really needed it.</p>
<p>Long story short…my recs got returned to me by one of my teachers a month after I submitted them. Apparently there was a missing signature and they were returned immediately to the school (as that was the address on the envelope) but they “wandered” around the school for a month trying to find me (I guess). Anyway, my counselor was sweet enough to call USC, explain the delay and we faxed them that day. They were accepted. So, do exactly what alamemom says and things will probably work out. Having my school back me in explaining the delay meant the world to me.</p>
<p>I am sorry your career counselor is so negligent. That is scary. I have NO IDEA how mine keeps up with all the requests she gets, but she does and is a God to me lol.</p>
<p>Also, dude, on the off chance that it doesn’t work out and you don’t get in… you can always appeal it because that’s a legitimate reason.</p>