LOR processing times

[Catria]

OK, here's the conundrum: after the professor writing me one of the three LORs asked me, this morning, to send a reminder (because he wrote one for nine of the 11 schools I'm applying to, I know he actually wrote one) for two schools, specifically UChicago and Columbia.

 

I returned to his office late afternoon, and, although he claimed he sent his LOR online, I am left wondering about processing times because it still shows that the online link is sent to recommender on October 16. Either these two schools have longer online processing times (I could expect, at most, 1-3 business days, but it still beats paper recommendations) or he didn't actually do it yet.

 

I am not sure how long does it take depts to process LORs submitted online...

[TakeruK]

Some schools take awhile to process it, but other schools do it at almost the speed of light (literally). For most of my schools, as soon as the prof hits "submit", a confirmation email goes to both the prof and myself so I know it happened right away. For the above case, I would wait a week, then either:

 

1. contact the school to check if they received it, and if not, you can contact your prof again and let them know your school didn't receive it

or

2. let your prof know that the online thing still says "not received"

 

I would probably go with 2 unless you feel that you want to bug the prof as little as possible, in which case, try #1!