<p>I was dumbfounded when my teachers let me read the recs they wrote for me. All four of them (counselor, 2 academic teachers, additional) looked alike! Same formatting, same language use, same length, but different points. They said that they didn't know how to write recommendations (I'm a foreign student, and teachers here rarely write them, especially in English), so they just gave the points to an English teacher to do it for them. Now I'm worried that the admissions officers will suspect something (like I wrote them myself or something). Anything like this happened to you before? Any words of consolation? I'm darn anxious now.</p>
<p>even if the schools suspected something, they would just call your school and talk to the teachers and find out that they actually wrote the rec's...it's not your fault that they sound alike, don't worry about it.</p>
<p>Im international as well and I reckon a lot of teachers do that. You shouldnt be worried</p>
<p>They won't hold it against you. It's always entirely possible that a rec is a translation, or that they came through the school office; if worst comes to worst, your teachers might be asked to confirm that they recommended you.</p>
<p>I had two recommendations signed by husband and wife (my math and physics teachers), they even had simmilar signatures. I don't know if they were detrimental to my application.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Having all your recs look alike is still better than what mine look like. My math teacher's rec started with "Please excuse my dictionary-based English" and after that, I couldn't figure out what half of what he wrote was supposed to mean.</p>