whereiscarmen

Yea, I really regret checking and finding out that some of my applications may be in jeopardy and I may want to apply to some extra schools with a different recommender just in case I want to go to grad school.

Well, I'm not turning that one in. And he didn't write anything on it anyway. The ones I turned in I didn't read.

Nice, thanks. Yup, my last hopeful recommender is in art history, and I'm applying to social sciences. I might email her today, since the other 2 haven't responded yet. I think all of the teachers here went on vacation every since Friday came. lol

I have emailed 2 potentials to be my 3rd recommender. I'm going to give them a week to reply since the holidays are coming up. If they don't reply, I want to email one of my professors from last semester who I did well in her class and I'm also taking her again this spring. However, she is not in the same department as the program I am applying to like the other recommenders. Do you think this will be okay?

Hello, Most of my schools require 3 recommendations. 2 of mine are doing them online, the other one did his by paper. (He's old-fashioned). I found out recently one of my schools only required 2 recommendations. My paper recommender finished all my recommendations pretty quickly. (I was very skeptical.) I decided not to use his recommendation for my school that only requires 2 recommendations because I know that his is the weakest, and I wanted to know how he did them so fast (within a week). So I looked at the one he wrote for my 2 recommendation school since I'm not going to mail to his anyway. To my surprise, the checkbox portion of the form were all very good. (you know, the top 5% checks). However, he left the part about now write your paragraph here about the student empty. Yikes. Now, I'm a bit worried. I've already mailed in his paper recs to the other schools. I wonder if he did the same thing for my other schools too. I'll admit that on this school's form it was hard to see the question about writing a paragraph because they did not leave any room for it. The other schools' form left a space to write in a recommendation...so I'm praying that he saw that and wrote something about me. It's not like he doesn't like me. I did/do very well in his classes, he's just slightly careless. I wish that there was a way I could ask him if he did or not for my other schools. But I can't since I waived my right. Do you think the schools will contact him asking him for the rest of the recommendation if he didn't write a paragraph? When schools say they have received a paper recommendation before my application has been submitted, does that mean they have opened the envelope and skimmed through it to see if everything is okay? Or does it just mean they got it in the mail without them looking at it? Will this look bad on me? Or are my chances at grad school still okay, if... If my other 2 lor online are strong (with everything filled out) and since this 3rd paper one had good check marks on the checkboxes (despite missing a written rec), do you think it will be okay? Worse case scenario, I'm hoping I'm getting into this school that only wanted 2 recommendations. But I hate feeling like I'm wasting my time working on these essays for these other 4 schools. I'm also adding another 6th school (a safety school I think) with an application due February 1st, but I'm scrabbling to find a different 3rd recommender. Hopefully, I'll find someone else in time and will atleast have my 2 "safety" schools applied to with full recommendations in case this incomplete one does mater.