<p>My D’s school sends in everything by paper. I gave her addressed/stamped envelopes a few weeks ago to give to her teachers with the blank recommendation forms. She has signed the waiver of confidentiality on the CA. </p>
<p>She just mentioned to me that she noticed I didn’t put in a return address so she filled in our home address as the return address. The school’s instruction packet said the school/teacher will fill it in. We doubt the guidance office will notice and may have sent them to the schools by now.</p>
<p>Are these just opened in the mail room so it doesn’t matter? Or do we now need to contact 10 schools and explain?</p>
<p>We are questioning every step we make at this point.</p>
<p>Your high school may have a stamp or a sticker that they put on for the return address… I can’t imagine they hand address them. I’d call the Guidance office and ask them what they do in that case - I’m sure you’re not the first people with this problem.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Our school had teacher LORs done by snail mail as well. To be honest I can’t remember what we did about return address. I think we filled them in but put the school address. If there was a problem the hs would have contacted you. The college has someone assigned to open the mail, if not a mail room in admissions. </p>
<p>The vast majority of colleges scan snail mail into a computer so that it is matched up with your students common app. When a reader opens a file all data that has ever come in, electronic or snail, gets pulled so the reader can see it all in one place. The admissions reps never see the envelopes.</p>
<p>I’ve worked as a volunteer helping GCs put together these packages. If someone puts his or her address in the return spot on an envelope, I cover the home address with an address label with the school’s address on it. It’s really no big deal.</p>
<p>Thanks to all. My D sent an email to the guidance dept. and see if they covered our address. And if not, I won’t worry about it. Geez this is all crazy.</p>
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Yes to that. Don’t feel badly. I was so over-eager, I didn’t want the teachers’ LOR’s folded into thirds, so bought S-2 flat 8x11.5" envelopes; then had him affix the wrong postage - short by a few cents because I didn’t know the post office uses size, not weight, to determine postage.</p>
<p>Greatly impressive. Fortunately nobody’s anything had left the GC’s office yet. I immediately phoned it into the GC who added some penny-postage, and son ran to add to the petty cash supply of the GC.</p>
<p>“Geez this is all crazy.”</p>
<p>You got that right. Both of my D’s HS’s used snail mail for application materials. Neither school could adequately explain its procedures. I literally looked into the eyes of the GC’s and asked “Does this system actually work?”</p>