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From: ragerj@nucsrl.UUCP (John Rager)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: recommendations from teachers
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Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 16:17:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 18 16:17:26 1987
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I have been teaching for about 8 years. When I am asked to write
a recommendation for someone for whom I do not feel I can write a
good letter, I tell them. They often request (insist) that I write it anyway,
because it is the best they are going to get.

Many professors will write bad recs. Perhaps it is easier to understand
this if you think about a letter as being an 'evaluation', rather
than an endorsement.

I am surprised that your boyfriend got to see/evaluate the letters.
That is quite unusual.

John Rager