<p>BAD NEWS.....my chem. teacher who did my common app. rec's for oberlin, vandy, brown, and princeton printed out a copy of the letter for me to use for a scholarship. i was skimming through it later on....sounded pretty good but i got to the third paragraph and started reading about things i had no idea i had done....b/c I HADN'T DONE THEM! he got me mixed up w/ someone else i guess (he does tons of recs) and so there's a whole paragraph that ivy league adcoms are probably reading right at this moment about me chairing this committee and going to that conference and being NHS vp....and it's all total BS and they totally know it, having my 4 page long brag sheet handy which definitely doesn't include any of those things....</p>
<p>so i don't really know what to do except get him to print a corrected version and mail it in to those places with a written explanation/apology..... AAAAH! i am so upset. i realllly hope it doesn't reflect poorly on me..... i mean, they must be aware that students technically aren't even supposed to read their rec letters.... but just the fact that i chose a recommender who did such a sloppy job.... and what if they think i'm trying to make stuff up so i'll look good? ...........</p>
<p>suggestions? tears of sympathy? reassurement (is that a word?)?.... any of that would work....please reply!</p>