@mer377:
Listen carefully to MITPhysicAlum’s advice. It is more true than you likely realize.
Your recommenders can write in their native language, and someone who is not you can translate it to English. I’ve read that in that case they should submit both the original and the translation. In the US, the expectation is that the student does not have access to read the recommendation.
@mamaedefamilia that’s good they review the applicants in context, however There are a lot of difference between someone who has lived the capital and someone who has not lived in the capital… I guess if I explain the situation to admission officers they will understand.
@MITPhysicsAlum It’s not that I’m going to tell him to lie, I tell him it’s good to write about my achievements or my performance in class or talk about the situation of learning here. Be sure I wouldn’t do unethical things
@Ynotgo One of me recommenders is my English teacher and the other one is Math teacher. can my math teacher give his recommendation to the English teacher to translate it? Or it has to be someone else?
It’s still unethical. A LoR is supposed to be his independent assessment of you. If he writes “whatever you say”, it’s not independent. It’s really not even him. If he writes what you say, it’s really you. Furthermore, MIT specifically says not to do this - see paragraph #4 here: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/about_mit_recommendation_lette
I repeat my advice - I would recommend you rethink this plan, and you do it with a sense or urgency. It could potentially have a much larger impact on your chances than your essay.,
@MITPhysicsAlum the article says: I recommend that you find some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it.
Sorry but I guess you can’t understand me well and I can’t understand you well, the term unethical is different in my point of view.
Thank you for your advice.
@mer377:
Paragraph #4
If a teacher asks you to write the recommendation for them – do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the United States, but do happen with some frequency abroad). Instead, ask another teacher. Teacher recommendations should only be written by the teacher and by no one else.
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I guess if I explain the situation to admission officers they will understand.
Yes they will definitely understand. But will it be the way you want them to understand it?
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@jpm50 I saw paragraph 4 earlier, thanks.
you know you wouldn’t believe if I say I’m the first person who applies from my city. when I told my headmaster that I want to study abroad for bachelor he was very surprised, later he disagreed to help me because he thinks it’s illegal, I’m struggling to convince him that no one will capture you for this.
None of my teachers know what is LOR, I have to help them to write it, they don’t know what to write. I have to tell them what to include in their LOR, how they should talk what to include about me. I’m not saying I’m writing it, I’m saying I just help them to complete it.
If you see my posts in other threads it’s apparent that I want to take a gap year, do you know why? because I’m going to spend the next year to teach everyone what’s the process of applying to college. even I have a friend from the capital who has studied at Stanford for his master becasue of his billionaire parents but he didn’t know what was SAT or ACT.
Actually, my essay is about the condition of here, I want to admission officers know what is like to live in somewhere like this and what is like to thrive here.You don’t know what’s happening in an undeveloped city of an undeveloped province of an undeveloped country.
Your essay idea about the conditions where you live and how you have developed as a person within a difficult situation sounds like a good idea. You can speak to your efforts to improve your community within that context.
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OK, we’ve told you this is a bad idea. MIT has specifically said not to do this. If you do this anyway, don’t be surprised if you don’t like the consequences.
@mamaedefamilia yes I will talk about that exactly
@MITPhysicsAlum don’t worry I won’t do anything that MIT thinks it’s very bad. if they ask me anything I’m sure that I can convince them …