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The teachers usually want an email anyway because a lot of them will ask the student for some bullet points as reminders of what the kids has done in class. 
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There was a requirement to ask the teachers face to face [/quote]

Is this requirement in the application information from TJ or is this an individual middle school/teacher requirement?  I don’t remember seeing this the year my child applied. 
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0931 here. This was not a requirement in the application information from TJ. It seems to be an individual teacher requirement. 
The teacher who required a face to face request had strict requirements on internal deadline dates such as 1) talk to me by x date 2) provide me with your answers to my questionnaire by x date. This teacher had talked to the students about this process when school started. Teacher also rounded up the semifinalists in class to remind them of the internal process. I thought this teacher was well organized. The other teacher didn't ask for anything at all!

I will agree that this application process has a lot of logistical hoops- but then again, everything has logistical hoops. I did pay attention to all the dates myself, wrote them all on the family calendar.  DS had a pretty good handle on the deadlines but I still sat with him when he logged into the TJ portal to enter the teacher names.  Anticipating any system glitches,  i had him screenshot the "Your request for teacher recommendations have been submitted" confirmation.

I imagine that applying for college will be just like this, but with multiple schools. [/quote]

So except for certain teachers who requested that students ask face to face, semifinalists had a full week to ask teachers because they could have sent an email at any time during that week.  It seems that the majority of applicants had enough time to complete this step on time. 
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