<p>In a lot of these pointless "chance" threads I see that people list recommendations as good or great. Did your teacher actually let you read them usually, or is this just how you have been told/assume? Does anyone who had a "great" rec have something like "in my entire career I have never had such a brilliant and creative student" etc.? Or is "great" usually just "a very brilliant and creative student" or "one of the most brilliant in my career"?</p>
<p>Most are the latter. The occasional garners the former.</p>
<p>And the "good"/"great" declarations are usually assumptions.</p>
<p>My teacher let me read it. He said that "in my entire career I have never had such a brilliant and creative student." I also won student of the year award too, both in his class and in the school district.</p>
<p>I was able to read my humanities rec and an extra one from a professor at Rutgers I worked with. Both were insanely amazing. I was quite pleased that I was able to make such a good impression on them. I never read my physics teacher's rec, but I would guess it was normal-good, just based on her personality.</p>
<p>Don't ignore the humanities rec! Get a good teacher, humanities teachers often can write really good recomendations.</p>
<p>^^^agree!!!!!</p>
<p>I got one from my humanities teacher back and she let me read it. she had said something like "..Unlike any other student I ever taught my career and the only one to get A+ on her report card"....and "clearly, she is the best of the best"...so even you're not really a humanitites person, it's good to make an impression on your humanities teacher since those teacher def know the english language. lol.</p>
<p>dang wildchartermage, A+? don't tell me it was an AP class too. gah. very nice.</p>
<p>and just wondering, did u get recs like that for all teachers or was it just that one special teacher who really knew you? </p>
<p>I haven't read any of my recs and i don't know if they are that caliber (my school is really strict on the whole waiving your rights to see the rec thing). :(</p>
<p>and just wondering, did any of you guys who read your recs decide not to waive your rights?</p>
<p>I agree that humanities teachers do tend to write better than the Math/Sciences ones lol</p>
<p>prime235: It's not an AP class, but I had really pwned it so well that the teacher knows that I'm the best in the class. :) (even i waived my rights)
Hmm...I only read my humanities teacher, not my math teacher but we both clicked together realy well that I know she did write me a good one, and told me several ideas she had put in.</p>
<p>Well, it's funny how when my teachers tell me that they wrote me phenomenal recs and show them to me, the recs turn out to be not that great lol Does that happen to you guys often?</p>
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Only if any of them wanted to commit application suicide.</p>
<p>yea...its just that the teachers at my school are very strict about this. so seeing all these ppl on CC saying, "I just read my teacher rec and it was amazing," I was kinda like wahh??</p>
<p>At first my teachers offered to let me see them, but I declined just to be safe because I wasn't sure about the waiver.</p>