Common App - FERPA..

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE: Under the terms of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), after you matriculate you will have access to this form and all other recommendations and supporting documents submitted by you and on your behalf after matriculating, unless at least one of the following is true:</p>

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<li><p>The institution does not save recommendations post-matriculation (see list at <a href="http://www.commonapp.org/FERPA%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.commonapp.org/FERPA&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li>
<li><p>You waive your right to access below, regardless of the institution to which it is sent:
Yes, I do waive my right to access, and I understand I will never see this form or any other recommendations submitted by me or on my behalf.
No, I do not waive my right to access, and I may someday choose to see this form or any other recommendations or supporting documents submitted by me or on my behalf to the institution at which I'm enrolling, if that institution saves them after I matriculate.</p></li>
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<p>should i say or no?</p>

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<p>no, say yes</p>

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<p>Colleges generally prefer that you waive the right, under the assumption that a private recommendation is more likely to be an honest recommendation.</p>