<p>Does it really matter? I want my teachers to hand write their letter, and then for me to xerox them, and send them out to the schools of my choice. My cousin gave me the idea. He says it gives it the "personal touch". </p>
<p>FYI, he got into UCLA in 2000.</p>
<p>wow thats news to me.. before that I was definitely for a typed rec letter...</p>
<p>I doubt it does. </p>
<p>Generally, regional admission officers willm review your application first and type thier own one-page summary. Then the rest of the adcoms will look at that summary. SO chances are, the people making the final decision won't even see the original recommendation form. </p>
<p>That said, if I were an adcom and someone sent me an original handwritten rec, I would be more impressed. It shows the applicant really cares about this school he's applying to since he couldn't have sent originals to every school. A xerox though, means nothing (to me :p)</p>
<p>"FYI, he got into UCLA in 2000."</p>
<p>dog- im sure that teachers' hand written recs had nothing to do with his admission to ucla.</p>
<p>^^^^ Yeah, especially because UCLA doesn't accept rec's at least not anymore I don't know about 2000. Peace out dog</p>
<p>yeah xeroxing hand written forms will just look bad and the handwriting might become illegible, and it might be frustrating. Focus on getting recs from the right teachers, not on the presentation.</p>
<p>"FYI, he got into UCLA in 2000."
i dont think OHgiraffe wants to imply that his/her cousin got into UCLA bcoz of the handwritten recs. he's merely stating that sending a hadwritten rec. is no way detrimental to the application as in the case of his cousin...</p>