Letter of Reccomendation Disaster

AnneKatherine
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:22:25 +0000

My letters of reccomendation were going to be the strongest part of my application. I ended up asking way too many teachers (6) to write me these letters over the summer and I complied a detailed list of which letter I wanted to go to which school. At first I thought that would be up to me to decide but my school uses Naviance and apparently my teachers are the ones who select what goes where. I specifically told each teacher about where to send their letters but not one but two of them completely messed up and sent them to every school on my list. These two teachers offered to write me letters so I agreed but despite being super nice, they’re both rather incompatant and I was just going to send their reccomendations to safety schools. The two teachers that told me that I was one of their favorite students ever and that are both awesome writers aren’t going to be able to submit their letters now. I feel like the strongest part of my application became my weakest. My counselor told me that once a teacher pressed submit, it was irreversable. I know you can ask teachers to send letts by mail but I heard from a few people that it makes you look really bad. I’m already decreasing my chances of getting into colege by contacting each school individually to request a non-custodial CSS profile waiver. I feel like I’ve worked so hard throughout all of high school and now one silly misunderstanding is really going to hurt my chances of being admitted into my top choice schools.

Has this happened to anyone else? What did you do?

(Sorry for typos. I’m quickly typing this out on my phone).