<p>My GC showed me the letter of recommendation that she wrote for me - the content itself was excellent and she spoke very highly of me as a student...</p>
<p>...but the grammar was terrible. There were chunks of the letter where the grammar was so off that it was really difficult to actually understand what was trying to be said. She sometimes left out the subject, so a lot of the sentences were truncated fragments.</p>
<p>Its her first year as a GC, she's covering for my former GC who is out on maternity leave - she graduated from college last year. I imagine she must be stressed out, writing 150 letters and whatnot, and trying to portray the students positively and whatnot - but I worry that the grammar of the letter might hamper the overall effect of the letter. :/</p>
<p>I didn't want to correct her. I'm 17. I'm not an English professor - I felt like correcting her would be seen as condescending.</p>
<p>Hmm. Well since she probably has it saved and for the most part it’s already written, and I think that recommendations are important I would consider having her fix the typos especially because if they don’t make any sense and there is a lot of them as you said. I totally understand where you are coming from but I personally think it should be corrected. For the benefit of her not looking stupid and you looking as polished and college bound as you can. Hopefully that makes sense.</p>
<p>preamble1776, ask her to correct the wrongs. it doesn’t matter. becasue GC letter is probably the most important tool of any application (many people say this) and I understand one thing:</p>
<p>LOR confirms the personality you show in your essay. LOR>essays. that means, if you want to think that you are doing bad by correcting her, you will be hurting yourself only. </p>
<p>If I were you, I would do what is best for me. Wouldn’t care if it’s looking bad. there was a SAT essay prompt:</p>
<p>*is it necessary to become impolite sometimes? this would be a prefect example.</p>
<p>If you can think of a way to get the errors fixed without looking really rude, then use it, but I don’t really think this makes you look bad. If it looks like you have your act together even though your school doesn’t, that actually kind of looks good.
They know you’re not responsible…I don’t think most kids even get to see what their GC writes.</p>
<p>Also, are you sure it was the final draft that you saw?</p>
<p>She gave me a second copy today - everything was fixed aside from one sentence where she said;</p>
<p>“Preamble1776 worked closely with the city council regarding budgeting in an effort to preserve arts program.” She left out the word “the” but otherwise, its the only minor thing.</p>
Right now I can’t think of a way you could ask her to fix it without looking like an asshat.</p>