<p>So does this mean teachers have to fill out each individual college’s rec letter seperately? Or do they have to fill out an universal one</p>
<p>If online, they can ONLY fill out a universal one.</p>
<p>If you want specified ones, they have to go through normal mail.</p>
<p>Well, you see, on the common app, you have to invite your teachers for every college. So does that mean they’re going to fill the same rec letters 9 nine times for nine colleges?</p>
<p>Bump 10^char</p>
<p>same question^^</p>
<p>When you invite a teacher to complete a Common App Teacher Evaluation (TE), he or she can login to the Common App School Forms system to complete your TE. They only complete one TE for you. On your School Forms page in the Common App Online, you can assign that teacher (and that one TE form) to any schools in your My Colleges list. If you assign a particular teacher to three different colleges, the Common App Online system will automatically send that TE to each of the three colleges.</p>
<p>Hope that helps to clarify…</p>
<p>Do you have to submit your applications before you’re able to add teachers? Because I haven’t submitted anything and I really have no clue where I’m supposed to input my teacher’s information and stuff…</p>
<p>you have to:
- fill out the Academics page.
- Go to the School Forms page.
- Read the instructions.
4a. If your school does not use Naviance, you’ll be able to invite your teachers from the School Forms page of the application.
4b. If you school does use Naviance, you will have to ‘manually’ invite your counselor and teachers to complete your forms using Naviance. - Confused? Take a deep breath and go back to step 3.</p>
<p>When your teacher does the Teacher Evaluation form electronically, can you read it before you send it?</p>
<p>2bizee,</p>
<p>No, you can’t read the TE before it is sent, nor do you have any access to it at any time through the Common App Online system. Only your teacher and the college to which the TE is submitted have access to read what he or she writes. If you are concerned about what your teacher might write, I would suggest that you have a conversation with him or her to better understand their perspective on you. If you are too worried to do that, request a recommendation from a different teacher.</p>
<p>Ohkay, excellent then. This has sorted nearly everything out.</p>
<p>One little question:
Does common app notify us when the teacher has completed and submitted the TE to common app?</p>
<p>If your school does not use Naviance then, yes, you will be able to see the status of your school forms at any time. On the School Forms page it will display if the teacher or counselor has started the form, when it was submitted, and when it was downloaded by the college (which can only happen after you submit the Common App Online to that college). The Common App does not have a way to display the status of your forms if your school uses Naviance.</p>
<p>Can the teacher submit his/her evaulation before you have submitted your common app, or should you wait until you are finished with it before sending them the forms?</p>
<p>The teacher can submit first, and it is a good idea to ask the teacher early so that the teacher is not rushed.</p>
<p>ok, but if your school has naviance, the hole thing changes right?
how do you determine which teacher gets asked for which college? We have a new GC this year and she seems totally confused. Does anyone know how naviance works for tthe techer recs?
Would it be better to just submit the recs by mail?</p>
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<p>One college may specify that it wants a recommendation to come from a math teacher, and another college may specify that it wants a recommendation to come from an English teacher, or something like that. Once you have read about what each college is looking for, and you have talked to your teachers, you will know what teachers to match up with what colleges.</p>