<p>Jumping into this discussion late, after ED deadline has come and gone. However, last year, my D applied ED to her “dream reach school” and one of her two chosen teachers uploaded the rec to the reach school only, but not to any of the other schools on D’s list. (The other teacher’s rec uploaded to all her apps on the Common App at the same time). School was using Naviance for the first time last year to interface uploading materials to the Common App. D got her ED app in on time; then, while waiting for the ED answer, the “early apply for early notification” deadline was looming any day now for two of D’s “match/safety” schools, and still the one teacher’s rec had not yet been uploaded to the common app. Like the OP, this heli-parent jumped the gun and sent an e-mail to the teacher and the GC, innocently asking if there was some glitch in the system that explained why the teacher’s rec wasn’t on the common app for all of D’s schools yet. Turns out, this teacher believed so much in D (top student with top test scores in her class) that she thought she was a slam-dunk to get into her reach school, and therefore she decided not to send recs to her other schools! Just to illustrate that school staff are humans, and sometimes do things for their own reasons which have nothing to do with being busy or indifferent. This was an instance where D did absolutely everything right, and she felt, like the OP, that it would be “pushy” to ask the teacher about why the rec wasn’t there on all her apps. We never would have found out the teacher’s positive motive (albeit uninformed about D’s realistic chances of acceptance at reach school) for the “glitch” in her apps without my “innocent” e-mail. (End of story: D was not accepted to reach school - lesson learned for teacher about selective admissions - but was accepted to all match/safeties thanks in part to teacher’s great confidence in D!)</p>