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DO LOR confusion

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DanseMacabre99

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Hey all, first post here, so maybe I can get some help? 🙂

I just finished meeting with a terrific DO, and without me asking (which I was struggling with trying to figure out how to bring up), she offered to write a recommendation at the end of our meeting! How awesome, right?!

Here's the confusion: I was told that when I do my common application, to send her a pin number, or link? and she would upload a recommendation for me. Does this make sense for anyone? Granted I'm not that familiar with the whole application itself. The whole pin number/link thing kind of threw me off, but hey I was so excited at the prospect of getting a rec that I didn't really bother asking for any clarification.