<p>My teachers have sent their recommendations almost 3 weeks ago, but they are shown to be not processes on my application status page. What should I do now? ask my teachers to send another one? Thank you! T.T</p>
<p>No; just wait another week - they often take a while to process recs and officially confirm receipt of them. Only when they appear as “Not Processed”, “Not Received” or “Missing” (can’t remember which label MIT uses) around the due date, should you actually be worried.
You might like to call up and check if they have them; sometimes they will have them and just not update their database.</p>
<p>There’s no need to worry, or to take action right now. MIT receives a huge volume of mail each year around this time, and it takes time to sort the mail and enter all the application pieces into the application tracker.</p>
<p>MIT’s Matt McGann wrote a blog entry on this subject a few weeks ago: [MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Where’s My Stuff?”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/deadlines/wheres_my_stuff_1.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/deadlines/wheres_my_stuff_1.shtml)</p>
<p>If your letter hasn’t shown up by the time the mail is done being processed (which for RD is usually in mid-January), then you can have your teachers re-send the letters. But odds are very good that the letters are already at MIT, waiting patiently to be sorted into your application folder.</p>
<p>One of my DS’s reccs went missing from his EA application (even though they were both mailed by his school in the same envelope as his transcript).
No worries though – MIT just sent him an email about it, and allowed his high school guidance counselor to fax another copy.</p>