Guidance counselor letter on Common App

lgreen
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:44:05 +0000

This year will be my first experience with the Common App. If I file the school documents online, will I be able to submit a different guidance counselor recommendation letter for each college, or will the same guidance counselor letter go to all colleges?

When my student applies to a special program at one college, I think the guidance counselor letter should focus on certain parts of his background that would NOT be emphasized to another college that doesn’t have the same program.

So it seems important to be able to tailor the guidance letter and to send a different version to different schools. If this can’t be done online, perhaps I should submit the school documents on paper.

Does anyone have experience with this?