My Recomendation letter is missing???????

_equilibrium
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:25:09 +0000

Maybe you could talk to them at school or send an e-mail, saying “I was checking my application status for Northeastern, and I noticed that they haven’t received your recommendation yet. I would appreciate it very much if you could send it out ASAP, seeing as the deadline is the 15th of January. Thank you.”

A couple of situations may have occurred:

a. The teacher has not sent anything yet.
b. The school received the recommendation but did not process it yet.
c. The school recieved it but it hasn’t shown up on the website yet (sometimes these things take time, especially when the mail is heavy)

You could also request them to fax the recommendation; since it is only for one school it shouldn’t be too difficult. Besides, we’re talking final deadlines here - who is he/she to disqualify you from being considered for admission by Northeastern? So I don’t think they’ll have a problem with helping you out.

Even though these are very important matters, I too had to “prod” a teacher into sending his rec for me - which we students should NOT have to do. I mean, I gave him a neat list of deadlines for all my schools, enveloped, everything ready in a clean folder…but some teachers are extremely busy and subsequently, absentminded.