<p>One of my friends was telling me how one of their teacher recs has a few errors. I guess they're not that noticeable, just a small grammatical mistake (like 'he' instead of 'him'), and two punctuation errors (commas- I think.) It really isn't that detrimental and the recommendation itself is amazing, but with admissions so competitive you never know what can happen with even the smallest error. So what to do? I'm trying to be helpful. I really just don't know what to say though, I mean you can't just go up to a teacher and say "This recommendation is amazing, but would you mind fixing some of these errors you made?" Any advice or ideas on what to do?</p>
<p>Go up to the teacher and say "thank you" and then stop fretting.</p>
<p>Wow... agree with above post.</p>
<p>Although colleges would like the recs to have teacher-level grammar, i'm sure they understand that even teachers make mistakes. Teachers have a lot of classes to teach, quizzes and tests to grade, students to give extra help to, report cards to write, etc. and writing a college rec is just something they're willing to do on top of that, so I'm sure colleges will understand that mistakes might be made. A mistake here or there probably won't make the reader question the credibility of the teacher.</p>
<p>The colleges know teachers are very busy, and the colleges don't care if teachers make minor grammatical or punctuation errors. What the colleges care about is what the recommendations say about the students.</p>
<p>What the OP's friend should do is take the time to write a handwritten thank-you to the teacher for taking the time to write the recommendation.</p>