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From: davims@mhuxu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: recommendations from teachers
Message-ID: <6633@mhuxu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 11:03:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 17 11:03:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:50:48 EDT
Reply-To: davims@mhuxu.UUCP (SZ-LOCOCO,JOHN)
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My boyfriend is a May 1987 graduate in CS.  He asked some of his former
teachers for recommendations, and they said they'd be happy to oblige.
When my boyfriend received his letters of recommendations from the teachers,
they turned out not to be "recommendations" at all.  They said some pretty
nasty things about him that outweighed any good points.  

Has anyone out there ever heard of something like this happening?  Why did
these teachers even bother to write their so-called "letters of               
recommendation" if they were just planning on saying nasty things?  
  
To the professors out there: Personally, what do you do if a student you
don't have a high opinion of asks you for a letter of recommendation?

Please answer through the network.  Thanks.  Laura
 
P.S. My boyfriend threw out these letters. What a waste of time for every-
one involved!


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