<p>on the common application, are there any heavy consequences to not waiving your right to see your application? would a teacher possibly not write your rec?</p>
<p>That would be the teacher's choice as they can always refuse to write the rec.</p>
<p>yes, if you don't waive the right to see the app then the colleges will heavily discount what is written.</p>
<p>Mikemac, who tells you this stuff? Dude there is nothing wrong with seeing your ---- recommendation letters.</p>
<p>I think that there are consqeuwnces for not waiving your right to view the recommendation. Most of the colleges own applications that I have looked at include teacher rec forms that require you to waive your right, and do not leave it as an option.</p>
<p>Colleges wouldn't ask the waiver if they didn't think it gives them more honest recommendations.</p>
<p>The advice I've always heard is to sign the waiver. I don't know if the consequences of not doing so are "heavy," but why take the risk? Not signing just makes it look like you have something to hide and are afraid of what the teacher might say.</p>
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warped writes: Mikemac, who tells you this stuff?
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common sense, for one thing. If it didn't matter, then why would colleges go to the trouble of asking you to waive the right? Because they have a fascination with collecting applicant signatures on forms?</p>
<p>Either they are incredibly naive and should listen to you, or they perceive some difference in what would be written in a rec if a student sees it versus one where they don't.</p>
<p>I'd waive the right to see the rec...it does affect how adcoms treat the teacher's recommendation.</p>
<p>warpedklown there is no need to discredit someone when you,in fact, have your facts wrong</p>
<p>recs will be highly discounted if you do not waive your right</p>
<p>dude seriously speaking, i don't think teachers will care if u see their recs after u get in. it must've been good. damn.</p>
<p>See my teachers WANTED me to see their letters so I was just like sure why not. Thanks though, I never knew that though about waiving the right to see my recommendation letters.</p>
<p>In two of my reccomendations I didn't waive my right (didn't think of it either way, no one here knows anything about right waiving), but on the last one I did waive my right, after learning that it not doing so might be bad. I hope that doesn't set off any red flags or anything...</p>
<p>They will assume that you looked at all the forms, and filled in the information where you think it was appropriate, including the recommendation forms.</p>
<p>It is not about looking at your records after you begin attending. Rather, it is about how the adcoms treat a recommendation that they think might have been affected by having to show the applicant what they wrote about him/her. </p>
<p>The recommender might have gone easy on the student evaluation because the recommender knew it would be seen by the applicant. Thus, the reasoning goes, adcoms may discount what has been written because it may have been affected by whether or not an applicant can view the recommendation (especially in the age of admissions litigation).</p>
<p>I would not even comment on the recs at this point...</p>
<p>Just a thought.</p>