Lets talk letters of recommendation

ActingDad
Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:05:44 +0000

I guess this might be one of those things that I actually have to get there in the Common Ap. to understand it but I am having trouble squaring the post from glassharmonica with the post from Marbleheader.

Like Marbleheader, our school also uses Naviance. Does that create some sort of default that the only letters of recommendation that can be submitted through the Common Ap. are school teachers? Does that put us in a different situation than glassharmonica whose child went to a cyberschool? Also, I don’t understand the notion of tailoring something differently to each school through the Common Ap. How do you customize something that is supposed to be common? I’ve seen that some schools have Common Ap. supplements – is that the part you are referring to that is being customized?

I was trying this past weekend to go through the application to understand what was involved without actually filling in much of the information. The problem is it wouldn’t let me see what the rest of it looked like until other parts were filled in.