<p>We all saw what happened to that dude who made up his own recommendations to get into Yale...</p>
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can u say hello community college for this retard?
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<p>Well it's not guaranteed that he doesn't know how to write a brilliant recommendation for himself.</p>
<p>But on the other hand, he cannot spell "advice". And this is not just a mere orthographical error (which I tolerate since it's completely separate from phonological-morphological-syntactical grammar), because "advise" is pronounced /</p>
<p>I absolutely cannot believe that you guys are treating him like a troll. There are teachers out there that require students to write their own recommendations and then they'll sign it off - yes, it sucks, but these things do happen. This happened to me once, but I told her "Forget it" and went off to another teacher who had the responsibility to do it for me.</p>
<p>I still remember being curious about why that teacher would make me do that, so I tried writing it out for kicks - so not cool. You basically have to try to get into the teacher's mind of why you are worth noting, which is pretty much the same as basing off a list of things that you do that are impressive.</p>
<p>To the OP: There are many more people that you can get recommendations from that do not have to be school teachers, like the adults in your ECs, outside schools, etc. Please don't waste your time on this.</p>
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im wondering why everyone dont just write their own recommendations.
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<p>I'm rolling with laughter.</p>
<p>mmm....i've never heard of this. Are you writing one in lieu of your teacher's or are you writing one from yourself telling colleges how good u r and signing it with your name and everything?</p>
<p>This actually happened to me with a recommendation letter for a scholarship. My recommender wanted to write one but didn't have time to really focus on it. She asked me to write what I would want to be said about me and then she reviewed it and made all of her corrections, changes, and additions. The final version was NOT what I wrote - she took out some things and added others. It was really quite different in the end (though still very positive), but having that template to work from helped her out a lot when she was so busy.</p>
<p>I highly doubt the OP is saying that they're going to write their own letter, sign their own name, and send it in on their own. They're probably doing to do what I did, which was write something up and e-mail it to the person who's going to finalize it. That would make sense, and I DON'T think it's that uncommon.</p>
<p>I totally agree with MHC2011. I'm assuming the teacher requested this from OP and will make appropriate changes.</p>
<p>By the way, this happens all the time at both places where I've worked professionally (Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard). Your manager tells you "hey, it's performance evaluation time - write your own evaluation and I'll see if there are any changes I need to make". It saves the manager's time, and puts the burden/opportunity squarely on you.</p>
<p>Same here, the professor I researched under asked me to write my own, and then he would change what he saw fit.</p>
<p>Edit: and it's not fraud because the person is still signing it to verify that they agree with the statement. It would be fraud if he forged the signature.</p>
<p>Second, unless he is an idiot and writes it in first person, the adcoms will barely be able to tell the difference.</p>
<p>***... how is this so ridiculous to all of you? i've seen this before... plenty of teachers ask students to just write their own letter of recommendation. the teacher will read it, and if they believe it is accurate, will sign it and say they wrote it. it's pretty common practice from what i know.</p>
<p>Look at his post history - he's a troll.</p>