<p>One of my teachers wrote the letter well and send it out quickly. My second teacher not so much...I gave her over the break to work on the letter and even sent a confirmation email to her which she responded "Everything is fine." I looked on one of my college's online recommendation site today which stated that my second teacher has yet to send in the rec which is due on the 10th. The other letters I gave her were all for Jan 1st. Am I going to get penalized for the incompetence of my teacher? What's going on here?</p>
<p>Nope. For my early app, one teacher sent it in over a month late. Granted, I didn't get in, but that's not why.</p>
<p>It can take up to 2 weeks after the Admissions Office has received the documents before they write it on the online tracking site...
So don't worry...
And I don't think that universities would penalize you if the teacher misses out on something...</p>