<p>Even though I waived my rights to see my letter, my recommender showed me the letter that she sent in anyway. The recommender was my manager at work, and she said that I have only worked there for two years. This is not true, as I have worked there for 10 hours a week since December 2010. This is one of my most important extra-curricular, as I work in a clinic and I aspire to enter the health sector. I put on both the common app and my resume that I worked there in grades 10, 11 and 12... Now it looks like that I'm beefing up my common app and my resume, since my manager's word is more credible than mine.</p>
<p>What can I do? Is there a way for my recommender to email the colleges and correct the mistake? Or do you think that it's not worth it.</p>
<p>You can’t do anything as you are not meant to have seen the letter and therefore know of the mistake.</p>
<p>This means anything would have to come from the person who would write it. If you wanted you could have her email the school and say she made a mistake in it and then tell them the correct number of years you have worked there. </p>
<p>If it looks like it came 100 percent from the person who wrote the recommendation then in no way will you be punished and no one will know you have seen it.</p>
<p>I would calculate 2 school years as the first half of 12th grade (so far), all of 11th grade, and the 2nd half of 10th grade, which would make you both accurate. Unless she gave a specific starting date that is different than you did, it doesn’t seem like she is contradicting you.</p>
<p>Ask her why she put two years when you think it’s been three? Maybe she has a way of calculating like the person above wrote. In that case I would not fix it.</p>
<p>“You can’t do anything as you are not meant to have seen the letter and therefore know of the mistake.”</p>
<p>That’s foolish. Even though she signed the waiver, the person allowed her to see the rec letter and a mistake was found. Of course she’s allowed to send a correction.</p>
<p>But in reality, 99.99% of people reading the rec letter won’t notice or care about the incongruity. I wouldn’t go thru the trouble.</p>
<p>If the schools knows you have read the rec they don’t count them as much as their is a thought that they wrote a really good rec just since they knew you were going to see it. That’s why you are not meant to see it.</p>
<p>The impact of not signing a waiver or colleges knowing you’ve read the rec letter is a little overstated, IMHO. Of course schools know that rec writers often share the letters with the students. It’s not that big a deal</p>