I am applying to several schools, Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois, U-Washington, Penn State, etc that do not require teacher recs and do not have recommendation forms. If my teacher sends them a recommendation letter, exactly how will they file it? Will they file it at all?
All my recs are coming directly from the teacher, each one mailing his or her rec in a separate envelope. My transcripts and counselor letters have already been sent out by the school.
<p>Anyone have any info on this?</p>
<p>This is speculation, but as long as the envelope is forwarded to the correct office and includes a way to easily identify the student, then they will probably put in directly into the folder that includes your application.</p>
<p>Not to worry. But I caution you that many state schools seem to have a don’t-really-care attitude about stuff you send them. Sometimes office personnel consider it too much work to take just a few steps to see if the pieces of your particulars are in. Some state schools of course don’t fit this pattern - UNC Chapel Hill comes to mind. Call, to be on the safe side.</p>
<p>This would only apply to selective state schools. </p>
<p>On the other hand, you probably won’t have much trouble getting in to those that aren’t very selective.</p>
<p>Send in the reccomendation anyway, it can’t hurt you if they ignore it, and if they have the staff to take the time to make a negative note of it, than they would have had the staff to read it in the first place.</p>
<p>Some less selective state schools state that that recs (and essays) are helpful to qualify for some scholarships. They may even require them for special scholarship aspirants.</p>
<p>Hopefully scholarships will have forms and instructions.</p>
<p>If not, you should probably contact the school to ask them, just to be safe. One idea would be to follow the standard procedures on the Common Application. <a href=“http://www.commonapp.org%5B/url%5D”>www.commonapp.org</a></p>