<p>Are you screwed if you’re only sending 1 rec plus the guidance counselor assessment if the university asks for 2?</p>
<p>Chances are they’ll consider your application incomplete, and will prompt you to submit the 2nd rec.</p>
<p>Submit your application.</p>
<p>Your GC assessment is not due to the school yet.</p>
<p>Will they consider my application with just one, though, or do I need to go get some emergency Rec?</p>
<p>What they will do is set up a file for you and drop in all of the information they have. When you go back to school have your GC submit the rec along with an updated transcript that includes your 7th semester grades. Worse case scenario, they will send you a letter/e-mail stating your file is incomplete and tell you what still needs to be submitted.</p>
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If the university specifically states they need two teacher recommendations and one counsellor rec, then if you only submit 1 teacher rec and 1 counsellor rec, your file will be considered incomplete, and they will send you a letter/email asking you to submit the 2nd teacher rec. Otherwise, I don’t think they will evaluate your application.</p>
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<li>** The teacher recommendations, GC evaluations and 7 semester transcripts are not due now Jan. 1/2 **.</li>
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<p>For many schools the 7th semester grades are not completed yet. In addition at most schools, GCs have until ~ mid february to get the information in for RD admissions. </p>
<p>Please stop worrying over this, most importantly please stop asking this question over and over again as it is important that the student submits their part of the application on time.</p>
<p>sybbie719, I get the impression that the OP has submitted/plans on submitting only 1 out of the 2 required teacher recommendations, and is wondering whether his application will be evaluated with only 1 recommendation, not whether late submissions of the recs will result in his application being dismissed. In that case, his application would not be evaluated if he doesn’t ever send in the 2nd recommendation, right?</p>
<p>IF OP is required to submit 2 recommendations, then that is what s/he should do. </p>
<p>If it was not submitted today, it is ok. Just send it in. </p>
<p>If s/he does not send it in then the file is considered incomplete. The college will contact the student and let him/her know that the application is incomplete (and the school will not move forward on it) and what items are missing.</p>
<p>Little harsh there. I’m perfectly aware of the cushion, thank you.</p>
<p>I do need to ask, though, are the GC really not due till mid-February?</p>
<p>I can get a second rec, but I don’t want to be like “Oh I need this within a few days, by the way…” if I have some more time.</p>
<p>When does the first semester at your high school end (in NYS the first semester is not over until Jan 29th after the end of the grading for the regents exams. This is also when transcripts are updated). </p>
<p>The one thing that you should keep in mind is that colleges are reading 10s of thousands of applications (most which are complete). If yours is not complete the process just moves on with out you so it is in your best interest to get your stuff submitted on a timely basis. </p>
<p>I can correctly guess, that teachers and GCs are writing more than one recommendation in addition to their teaching and counseling duties (personally, I don’t write last minute recommendations for anyone unless there is an extremely extenuating circumstance as my students get deadlines junior year when to submit information to me. I give them a reminder in september) so waiting until the last minute can come back and bite you as teachers (even GCs) are not obligated to write recommendations (they can file a greivance with their union and the union will uphold it).</p>
<p>Many people operate from the perspective of “Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”</p>
<p>Remember that your application, recommendations, evaluations and transcripts will speak for you to the admissions committee when you are not there to speak for yourself. </p>
<p>So why would you want to get a recommendation/evaluation who is going to do a rush job of writing it for you? Give people time to present you in your best light.</p>