<p>I applied ED to UPenn CAS and two of my three letters of recommendation are strong. However, my friend and I both asked for a letter from our calculus teacher from last year and we found out after submitting them that he wrote us almost the exact same letter! (which was not even very good)
Even worse, my friend already had submitted two letters and was not planning on sending that one, but his mom sent it by accident. I know that I would have been able to get a better letter from someone else, but it was too close to the deadline. I'm also trying to get my friend to ask for his letter to be removed from consideration since he doesn't need it. </p>
<p>Do I have any options here? Is this an auto-reject?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I mean, I don’t think that’s really what they’re looking at in recommendation letters…Obviously, some teachers are going to be better at recs than others. It’s not your fault that your teacher writes generic letters, and they won’t count that against you. At least, I hope not! The admissions people know how hard all the applicants have worked. To let something small like that ruin a person’s chances would be unfair.
Good luck!! I applied ED as well, and I think we’re in the same boat of stress, worry, and “oh my gosh i hope i did that right! what if they reject me because of that?!” I think we should all try to relax haha. Hope to see you next year!</p>
<p>There was a thread recently on the parent’s section about how schools aren’t paying as much attention to the LOR’s anymore because so many of them are generic, anyway. If you have two that are good and one that’s a generic, don’t sweat it. It says more about the laziness of the teacher than it does about you.</p>