<p>Who here had a really good teacher that you thought was responsible... and then BAM they drop the R-bomb on you. They want you to write your own Recommendation that you asked them to write weeks ago!</p>
<p>How many of you had to write your own recommendation or submit a draft? Maybe phrases?</p>
<p>this isnt really the same, but there is an AP English teacher @ my school who a bunch of ppl asked for recs; he wrote them by hand and then gave to the students and told them to type the letter themselves. </p>
<p>At least they got to read what he said about them…kind of wish my teachers had done that! I have no clue how good my recs were</p>
<p>I made sure to read my recs before I sent them in. While I respected them and didn’t dare to change anything, I couldn’t afford to take the chance one of my teachers held a secret grudge and wrote something bad.</p>
<p>I mean I’m all for ethics, but I’m not about to throw my chances away because I was too afraid to look.</p>
<p>^^ forgot to say most of my teachers just e-mailed them to me anyways. I had to put them on letterhead and bring them a copy to sign -.-</p>
<p>The guidance counselor did seal them in envelopes though. Had to take them out and put into overnight letters anyways. (yay for procrastination)</p>
<p>i totally would have looked if given the chance…but the teachers and counselor mailed the letters themselves. All I did was hand them the form, say thanks, and then after they put the letters in the mail they were like “Hey, I finished and submitted your recommendation.”</p>
<p>I could never write my own recommendation. That’s why I asked 3 teachers instead of the minimum of 2.</p>
<p>Thankfully they all wrote them themselves, and I’m sure they’re wonderful. I <3 all my teachers.</p>
<p>Recs were never seen but one teacher had kind of a survey for D to fill out and submit with her request. The other asked for no input. The GC had many forms for input for their rec; one from student, one from parents, one a non-rec teacher.</p>
<p>At our school, students don’t see the recs. Student provides the addressed, stamped envelopes and the rec forms for each school.</p>
<p>Ah. Recs at my school aren’t standardized or anything.</p>
<p>The way you get to see your rec… mention that it’s urgent and you need to overnight the recs in. That way they give the recs to you and you can put them in yourself.</p>
<p>I guess you could ask for the envelope sealed and then do it- but actually open the envelope and replace it? Lol…</p>
<p>Four years ago I saw some of the physical envelopes from son’s applications. The teachers signed across the flaps. I thought that was standard proofs to show that they had not been tampered with.</p>
<p>Well… couldn’t someone just remove the envelope all together? And replace it with a blank one?</p>
<p>Never mind who is writing them. The real issue is that it’s getting pretty late to be sending in recs or anything else in support of the apps. Decisions are starting to come out from various schools and will all be out soon.</p>
<p>Mal true - but I thought standard procedure was a signed sealed flap and if you replaced the envelope it would not be signed with the teachers signature across the flap (they would have the correct signature inside). I guess that that is not standard policy but I have not had any other experience to judge with.</p>
<p>Coureur I’m just discussing it. I think a lot of applications are already done deals…</p>
<p>I didn’t even get the chance to look at any. My school really emphasizes on “honor,” and pretty much all my teachers either mail the recs off directly or give them to me in sealed envelopes.</p>
<p>interesting shift on the topic…
I had a teacher who always bugged us about getting things done meticulously and on time during class… and I asked him for a rec when I was applying EA, and he forgot until I reminded him 2 weeks after the deadline x__x I asked someone else for RD appls.</p>
<p>My situation was similar to smoda’s daughter. I handed my teacher the forms and the stamped/addressed envelopes, and that was that - the teachers mailed the recs themselves. Never got to read them, but I’ve already gotten a couple of acceptances so I’m pretty confident in them. Not sure if they signed across the flap or anything like that, though.</p>
<p>Neither teacher asked me for any input (although I reprinted a copy of my final paper for my physics teacher), but I did fill out forms for my college counselor rec which were added on to by two other teachers, and a third teacher (we aren’t even told who) helped write the final rec. lol not sure if that totally made sense…</p>
<p>yeah i never got to see any of mine…one teacher i just handed the forms and envelopes and that was that, and the other one i sat down with and gave a resume and talked to her for a few hours discussing what i wanted her to talk about in it and such but i never saw the final copy…so im just keeping my fingers crossed that they were good</p>
<p>My school has us give our teachers addressed envelopes and the majority of us never see them again. They do have to sign across the back if they ask you to drop it off at the post office for them.
Neither of my teachers asked for anything. Even though they are very popular teachers they both know me well.
My guidance counselor asked us to fill out a form on Naviance. We have a good relationship but she has about 200 seniors so it’s understandable.</p>