<p>And ruin my chances!! NO WAY! My lecturer printed the stuff on school stationary though, frankly, it wasn’t the official stationary. It looked like he put the logo at the top of the paper but I was too polite to ask. Should I have asked him/approached him and asked ‘WHY THIS PAPER?!’</p>
<p>You should’ve ripped it in half first.</p>
<p>No seriously, what should I have done. He’s pretty much those nerdish guys whose office is filled with books. And he has a sleeping bag there. Crazy. I won’t be surprised that he actually spends his nights there.</p>
<p>lol i’m sure it’s fine. i was just being a butt. i actually think it’d be hard for me to write my own LOR though</p>
<p>did that once, wrote my own LOR (teacher gave me permission and she would sign it, i didnt go behind her back). TOTALLY backfired. My style of writing and what I said about me showed it was a student writing it.</p>
<p>Think about it, if a student wrote his/her own rec then he or she would add stuff that otherwise would not be added. (like me…) and this can be easily detected. No student really writes X is a good student, and is nice etc. instead why not just let the prof write it(cuz they will probably write the something similar) which defeats the purpose of writing your own rec.</p>
<p>lame ^ what ended up happening?</p>
<p>and I know for sure that they don’t verify because my rec’s weren’t sealed with a signature or on the college stationary, and both professors never heard from Cornell. I still talk to them regularly.</p>
<p>and like ironic said, CORNELL AIN’T GOT TIME FOR SHENANIGANS</p>
<p>got rejected from the college I applied to, but absolutely no notification from the college that I “forged” it or contacted the teacher. It didn’t raise any red flags, I suppose, but I guess because it was on school letterhead and had her signature and her handwriting and email filling out the forms.But I re-read it after I submitted and was omg…this is so obvious a kid wrote it. ( I included words like X can conquer any field and master any subject etc.)</p>
<p>But I am 100% sure my rejection was due to my SAT scores (1800 something at the time) and it was an ivy league. But if my SATs were in line, then maybe I would have gotten a notification.</p>
<p>I know someone who applied last year to Duke and the same teacher that let me write mine, let him write his. He used a template and Duke contacted the teacher, however, he still ended up getting in. (probably because of teacher approval). </p>
<p>So me and my friend were ok, recs wise because we had teacher approval and the teacher could vouch for us when something went wrong. But if you forge it, you won’t have anything to vouch for you.</p>
<p>As if the admissions would know how your teacher’s handwriting looked like! LOL!</p>
<p>Anyway it’s pretty common outside the US where lecturers ask students to ghost-write their testimonials and then they rewrite it. Saves them the trouble which is good in a way. I did one before and my tutor/instructor rewrote it – adding and subtracting stuff.</p>
<p>I’m having spring break now and I have to study for two papers due when sch reopens. SIGHS!</p>
<p>hey hey I wrote that at 6 am in the morning lol, I couldn’t concentrate since I was pulling an allnighter for my bio midterm, which was canceled due to the snow >.></p>
<p>I want spring break asap!</p>
<p>That’s insane – you studying till 6 in the morning – how on earth do you concentrate during your exam?1</p>
<p>I have a question about the recommendation letter. Would it hurt to send in two letters even though they only asked for one? Also what if I got a recommendation letter from a professor I am taking right now? I feel like she has gotten to know me and can write a good letter but it has only been about 2 months into the semester…would that be okay?</p>
<p>Ok. I wasn’t going to ask about recommendations but I guess I have to since my adviser decided to bs the evaluation. I am a freshman and school just decided to change advisers for freshmans recently so my adviser doesn’t know me at all. So she decides to say I don’t know her personally and she did not even write the long evaluation part. She gave the evaluation back to me saying she cannot do anything about the background infos… Is it ok if my adviser just ****ted the recs? Should I get another recommendation from other professors? :(</p>
<p>What is ****ted? Frankly, I’d get a recommendation from a prof. It’d help give admissions an indication of what SOMEBODY else thinks about you.</p>
<p>My advisor, who filled out the school official form, just did a brief write-up about how I am a strong student with good character and confirmed that I was in good-standing with my university and would be welcomed back should I not get into Cornell. I have two letters of recommendation - one from my professor last semester and one from my high school teacher. I don’t know if sending two LORs was wise, but my HS teacher adores me and was very happy to write one for Cornell. Just get them from people who can write well and say something that your application doesn’t.</p>
<p>omg!!! today there’s a snow day so my prof who was supposed to meet with me (b/c he wrote a really long rec, and he thinks i might need 1 more stamp on the envelopes) didn’t bother showing up. I waited an hour in school today hen i could have refined my essays. Can I notify my March 1st schools like brown and chicago that one rec might come in a little late (march 2nd). Or should I tell him to just go ahead and drop them off? There are 5 sheets of copy paper in each letter sized envelope. Will 1 stamp suffice?</p>
<p>@luckey: Congrats to Yuna! Her LP score was amazing, but I think she was a little overscored. Ah, Mao’s face during the medal ceremony was heartbreaking; I though her 2 3As should have gotten more points, she really does try to push the limits of her athleticism in her programs. I hope she incinerates ALL her competition at World’s and in Sochi for the 2014 Olympics! Yuna may7 be queen now, but Asada will be empress in a few year’s time kekeke</p>
<p>I had one from my instructor evaluation (He hand wrote it on the form – that’s fine right?), one from my professor when he filled out my academic standing record. And, I had one from my employer. Do you think that’s okay?</p>
<p>As long as it’s legible, I think hand-written is fine - there’s space on the form anyways. And I think it’s fine that you have an extra one from your employer as they can probably write about you in a different detail than your professors. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>@boy: I meant f–cked… Well but for the college official one, don’t I have to ge them from my adviser?</p>
<p>@melon: I heard Yuna might stop skating for olympics but not for sure… I just hope she gets to rest… I also think the score was kind of lil too high. But she deserved tht gold. Also, mao made few mistakes.</p>
<p>@boys: haha yeah I stayed up 2 nights tryin to study, NYU biology is incredibly hard! Basically there are 700 people and so much material and detail that the average for the tests are like a 60%, so I study my ass of and get like a 75… Cornell is probably going to be worse lol.</p>
<p>hey guys the person i conduct research under said she would write me a rec , but she isn’t a school official, do I have to get her to fill out the common app sheet or can I just mail the letter by itself with her signature on the bottom?</p>