<p>For those of you that submitted your apps already, did you have to invite your teachers? I thought you could just fill out a name and leave the email blank, but one of my friends is saying that you need to send the invite and wait for a teacher reply.</p>
<p>First, the exact procedures for teacher/counselor forms varies with high schools. Some configurations allow you to print forms to give to your teachers immediately while others force you to invite all the teachers required by your target colleges before you can submit. (You can see this if you choose other high schools and examine what happens to the school forms section.)</p>
<p>If you are in the latter category, you do have to invite all required teachers before you are permitted to submit your application. The invitations are then issued inviting your teachers to submit their forms on-line. However you do not need to get a reply. You will be able to submit once all the invitations have been issued.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, your teachers are given the option to submit electronically. They are able, if they wish, to choose to submit via other means (i.e., on a paper form delivered by snail mail). If they choose the latter, the Common App will show that to be the case and provide you with a form autofilled with your personal data for you to present to your teacher. Presumably if you have already had them fill out and send in forms in advance of submitting your own application they can ignore your invitation.</p>
<p>It would be nice if this was clearly explained, but I don’t think that it is.</p>