Do recommendation letters from professors have to have the university seal watermark?

Applying to College
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<p>I got a LOR written for me by a professor, but it doesn’t have the university seal watermarked into the paper. Will colleges think I’m faking the letter?</p>

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<p>Ummm no. An office worker scans it then shreds it. Watermarks aren’t detectable by scanners. Plus, how about uploaded LORs? A good no. of LORs are submitted electronically.</p>

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<p>What if they are submitted physically? And what you mean by “scans it then shreds it”?</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>

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<p>Official seals are not required for rec letters anywhere. When colleges receive rec letters they do not assume you are faking the letters. Note, if sent by mail, usually what is supposed to occur is that the letter is mailed by the one giving the recommendation or that person gives it to school counselor who sends it.</p>

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<p>What if the university states that all letterhead stationary must have a seal on them? My rec letter is on letterhead, but there is no watermark.</p>

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<p>Exactly what it sounds like: puts the hard-copy letter into a scanner, which makes it into a digital file (such as a .pdf file that you can read with Acrobat Reader), and then puts the hard-copy letter into a shredder, which cuts it up into tiny, tiny bits. Presumably, the tiny bits then get recycled.</p>

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<p>Contact information for the recommender is always included in an LOR.
If the admissions office has a question, they will pick up the phone or send an email directly.</p>