<p>writing your own letter does not mean that it is going to be the final draft for being sent to the schools…profs are just asking for a template and after you give it to them, they are definitely going to modify things (add positive, unique, personal things about you, remove false points from it) before they send it to the schools. It usually looks completely different from what you give them (from what I have seen). But you have to make sure that they do not send the same template …I see it happening so often in the school where I am workin as a tech right now (top notch school)…</p>
<p>It is because profs ( esp the big names) are so busy with their schedule and when you ask them to write you a letter, they feel comfortable redesigning the template rather than starting it from the very begining…</p>