<p>My teachers mailed out my recommendations and decided to show them to me after they were sent. They're spectactular and really glowing but after reading a thread on "College Admissions," it seems that glowing recs aren't believed. Can my teachers call someone to verify them?</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. I mean, would you have wanted a bad rec?</p>
<p>Anyway, I think if a teacher checks best in career for each box, they'll probably be skeptical--and rightly so. One student is very unlikely to be the most confident, most creative, most caring, most driven, most whatever else student the teacher has ever had. </p>
<p>Recs are read and considered with the weight the school feels they deserve.</p>
<p>I agree with corranged here. If your recs are glowing, then at least they're on par if they're not better. Of course they're skeptical about recs because teacher recs are selective about what they reveal, but they still say something about you.</p>
<p>My English teacher from sophomore year (who I did not ask for a rec) explained why recs are useful to admissions when I asked him about it. He said that you can reveal in recs certain talents, character traits, and skills that cannot be expressed in your transcript. For instance, he told me that had I asked him for an app, he would have mentioned my ability to see connections between seemingly unrelated topics (whatever that means ;)).</p>
<p>PorSK, you should read Guitar's essay. PM him for it. lol</p>
<p>I think corranged just beat me out on the whole "ability to see connections between seemingly unrelated topics" thing. :p</p>
<p>Haha. It totally wasn't that random. You'll see if you read it.</p>
<p>OK, I sent him a pm asking for the essay. This'd better be good. ;)</p>
<p>Oh, it is. It is.</p>
<p>You know what you should do? Sign a form stating that you won't read them (though most teachers will let you see them) and they will be more credible.</p>
<p>Just go in MS Word and type in: </p>
<p>"Waiver of Viewing Rights" [or the likes] </p>
<p>"I, (name here), hereby waive all rights to see the attached document under the jurisdictions of The State of (state name here) and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts to ensure a fair, critical, and correct evaluation. The contents of this document may only be viewed by the evaluator and those reviewing my application for admission."</p>
<p>Print Name:______________________
Signature:_______________________</p>
<p>I did and I have no clue what my teachers wrote and probably never will, haha.</p>
<p>I just got my law on, lol.</p>
<p>Doesn't an agreement like that come with the rec forms? I know I signed a few of those, can't remember which schools though.</p>
<p>Yeah, but the common app doesn't have one.</p>
<p>I waived when I could and never read any of them.</p>
<p>Some apps do, but not the Common App. Had to make me own.</p>
<p>Cool. I never looked at mine anyway, I thought I'd signed a waiver for them. Hahaha.</p>
<p>darn! I did NOT get to see them but I also did NOT sign the waiver because I thought it was irrelevant. poo!! but i know my teachers are awesome people and I trust them... i shoulda just signed it cause I didn't get to see it :(</p>