Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!chinet!nucsrl!ragerj From: ragerj@nucsrl.UUCP (John Rager) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: recommendations from teachers Message-ID: <3900005@nucsrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 16:17:26 EDT Article-I.D.: nucsrl.3900005 Posted: Sat Jul 18 16:17:26 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jul-87 00:41:15 EDT References: <6633@mhuxu.UUCP> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 13 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