<p>still, the very fact that you can pick the teacher and maybe build a special relationship with him targeted at inducing a better image of you is bound to distort the vast majority of recommendations. In fact the LOR will give an idea of the better you not the real you. I am sure the adcoms know that LORs are skewed. Even if not all of them are skewed, the fact that some are and that there is no obvious way of distinguishing them, takes any credibility out of them. So what is the point ?</p>