<p>If you are applying to a school through the common app, you start by creating a common app account and adding your school to your dashboard. Then go to the add recommenders section and invite them through your account. You’ll need their email addresses to do this. They’ll get an email from common app with access to the online forms. If they have a separate document prepared as a recommendation, the online submission allows them to upload it.</p>
<p>this is the first time my school sends electronic recs.</p>
<p>What does this “separate document prepared as a recommendation” include? It’s just a word doc with the school logo or what? The school director told me to tell her all what she has to, and she’ll d it, but she doesn’t know what exactly.</p>
<p>Yes, it can be on school letterhead. Specifics about what format the upload can be saved in (word, pdf) are available to the teacher through the common app when you invite him or her.</p>