<p>Just wondering...if one of your teachers accidentally send you the recommendation they wrote you, would you read it?</p>
<p>A few of my teachers directly gave me their rec (which was supposed to be given to my counselor and sent to the program I was applying for). As I was walking the letters to my GC’s office, I did read them just out of curiosity. I’m guessing this really isn’t a problem though because the teacher directly handed it to me. If they weren’t ok with me seeing it, they would have taken it to the GC themselves.</p>
<p>Of course.</p>
<p>No. I’d feel terrible if I did.</p>
<p>Yeah, 2 of my teachers showed me their recs. It was really awesome. If they sent it to me by accident, maybe… probably not.</p>
<p>My counselor asked me to read my rec to make sure she had everything correct as there were a lot of life circumstances I needed her to include. </p>
<p>I suspect I’ll end up reading the letter from my physics teacher as well, since he had my two friends read & approve their letters already. </p>
<p>If my other teacher sent me the letter accidentally (I’m not sure if he’ll have me read it like the other two or not), I’m not sure if I would read it… I know I shouldn’t, but I’m not sure if I could control myself lol.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor told me to waive the right to read any rec letters because that apparently makes them more authentic… I guess that’s true, since if you read them, you might tell the recommenders to make certain changes, thus bending their original words…</p>
<p>How do you know it was accidental. Maybe they sent you a copy.</p>
<p>Yes I would read it, honestly though it wouldn’t make a difference if you read it or not</p>
<p>My teacher missed the deadline to upload her rec and didn’t have the address to mail it to, so she offered to email it to me and I’d print and mail it. I told her no because it would be obvious that I’d have read it and they’d probably take it with about an oceanful of salt.
She said it was fine if I were to read it, and if she’d offered to show it to me just in general I’d probably have said okay. In the circumstances it just didn’t make sense.
(And I got into the college of my choice so she can’t have said anything bad :).)</p>
<p>How it was sent to me is long and confusing, but ultimately I’m 99% sure it was an accident because it was attached to a different document that I had asked my teacher to send to me. </p>
<p>As soon as I saw the “To whom it may concern” I realized what it was and deleted that part of the document, without reading it. I’m very, very curious as to what it says, but I also know that if I read it I would feel absolutely terrible and dishonest.</p>