Hey CC, if you guys could offer me some advice on a situation I’m having, I would be eternally grateful.
For some of the colleges I’m applying to, there’s an allowance for “other recommenders”. I asked one of the staff adviser of one of my clubs for a reference (he knows me fairly well), and he asked me to send him my resume. He sent me the resume afterwards and to my dismay, he literally made a laundry list of every item on my resume, including my SAT scores/AP exam scores. It was worded quite eloquently (he’s an English teacher), but I digress.
He of course talked about what I’m like as a person, but I feel like the laundry list he made would make it seem like I just asked an adult to copy and paste my resume on a recommendation letter. I asked him to remove the parts where he just talked about what I had on my resume, and he said that he wants to leave it in there to “substantiate” what I have and to show the adcoms what a great student I am (I believe he was referring to the list of my test scores).
So the big question is, should I unassign him as a recommender from my colleges?