<p>What's the policy at your school? Have you/will you read your letter?</p>
<p>There is usually a form you sign waiving your right to read recs. if you don’t sign this or don’t waive this right, prospective colleges know you had access to your recs and may not consider them to be as candid or forthright as possible.</p>
<p>@Sdgal2 : I thought when you waive FERPA rights, you are basically saying that you waive your right to ask the teacher to see it. So then it wouldn’t prevent teachers from letting students read their letters, if they offer to do so</p>
<p>frozens, </p>
<p>You are correct. If a writer of an LOR wants to share a letter with student, even though the rights are waived, that is entirely up to the writer. If the rights are waived the student cannot later go to the college/university and ask to see that part of the file.</p>
<p>The rule is that if you waive your rights, the schools you apply to won’t release your letter. The writer of the letter can still do what they want.</p>
<p>Both the teachers I asked, as well as my guidance counselor, allowed me to read my letter before they sent it in. They mostly wanted to make sure that the information they put in it was accurate. At my high school that’s pretty status quo-- most people don’t receive the guidance counselor letters, but basically all teacher recommenders allow the students to read them. </p>