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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who writes a a good number of letters each year, my advice is to wait until your child has their common app up and ready to go before you ask. I prefer when students ask me and then immediately have the link sent. It helps me organize my time in doing them.

Also, students shouldn't be afraid to politely nudge someone who hasn't done their letter after a month or so. Sometimes the email from common app ends up in my junk or my life just gets hectic. I appreciate a polite inquiry after a fair amount of time because there's a good chance I didn't see the email the first time. Don't just wait endlessly and then reach out in a panic days before things are due. [/quote]

I prefer to know before the end of the school year, so I can make note of things like a particularly insightful comment, to offer as an anecdote and so I can write during the summer. Since common app doesn’t open till a couple weeks before the end of summer I would not want a student to wait for that.  Having said that, our LOR’s go through scoir, so we don’t interact with common app as teachers.[/quote]

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