<p>Is it detrimental to not sign the waiver on the recommendation form relinquishing our rights to review the recommendations? Does it hurt the applicant in any way? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Its more of just a teacher privacy thing in that if you sign it you cant see it ever, but if you don't the teacher might want you to sign it nonetheless.</p>
<p>Really tho it doesnt matter but you should probally ask your teacher if its ok, or whoever writes your rec.</p>
<p>My teachers did not mind. However I read that some schools would automatically reject applicants on the grounds that review rights were not waived. On Matt's blogs there was a question about whether not signing this waiver would diminish the value of our recommendations, and Matt avoided answering this directly. That leads me to think that perhaps not signing this waiver indeed has detrimental effects.</p>
<p>If you don't sign it, the rec is probably given less weight because then the reccommender might not rite truthfully.</p>
<p>The people I know would still write whatever they thought you deserved anyway, but still....</p>
<p>It's really a trust thing. Signing the statement really tells the teacher that you trust them to write you an honest recommendation. I've had teachers that won't write the rec unless you sign it. Others will give you another copy of the rec nonetheless. I would just sign it.</p>
<p>Oh. Wow. Really? Obviously my school is not as intense about the college application process... I'm fairly certain I didn't sign it, but it didn't seem like a big deal. </p>
<p>Evidently this wasn't a huge issue, because I got in anyway.</p>
<p>Hmmm...I don't know if I should bother sending MIT an additional waiver...</p>