Timeline for Should I send a letter of recommendation directly to a student?
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| Jan 26, 2022 at 21:52 | history | edited | Buffy |
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| Feb 12, 2021 at 16:36 | comment | added | dmt | As an admissions officer in my service role, I often see less-qualified students submit letters which are dated 5+ years ago or longer. I don't like the idea of my letter of recommendation being in the possession of a student whose skills are limited for them to submit anywhere at any time. | |
| Apr 11, 2019 at 1:14 | answer | added | anon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 11, 2019 at 0:35 | answer | added | Elizabeth Henning | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 18:01 | comment | added | A Simple Algorithm | In ye olden days we had to get them in sealed envelopes with a signature across the seal, to send along with the application. One can still read them a bit through the envelope, plus of course one could decide not to apply to the school after all and just open it and read. | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 17:18 | answer | added | Laurie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 1, 2017 at 4:59 | vote | accept | Daniel R. Collins | ||
| Jan 31, 2017 at 8:01 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Recently received info shows that my current case is a U.S. college, in the top 60 of national rankings, and it accepts recommendations either by an online system, or by mail or hand-delivery by the student (although the latter are noted as not preferred). | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 7:19 | comment | added | DepressedDaniel | @paulgarrett For obvious reasons, some students are going to seek enrollment outside the top-X grad schools, for any X less than the total number of grad schools. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 5:06 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @paulgarrett It can be a non-US school. | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 2:00 | comment | added | paul garrett | In brief, in the U.S., for top-200 colleges and universities, the student's claimed requirement is entirely false, so far as I know. All (to my knowledge) top-whatever-number U.S. grad schools (for sure) do not want the students to have had any possibility of tampering... and the LOR is submitted electronically, not physically, in any case. So the student either grossly misunderstands or is lying. (Sorry to be negative-sounding, but something's amiss...) | |
| Jan 31, 2017 at 1:20 | answer | added | Mike Kuplevatsky | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 13:12 | answer | added | Lot | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 8:58 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 6:44 | comment | added | user541686 | Possible things you could do: (1) Put it in a sealed envelope and ask the student not to open it. (2) If you really trust the student but don't want the letter read, just ask the student not to read it. (3) Somehow mention without suggesting the student may be lying (if possible and applicable) that it's more difficult to write a good, candid letter if the student may someday read it. | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 4:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/825923941080379393 | ||
| Jan 30, 2017 at 4:15 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | Related answer: academia.stackexchange.com/a/71440/20058 | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 3:46 | answer | added | f.thorpe | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 3:08 | answer | added | xxxxxxxxx | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 2:51 | answer | added | Bob Brown | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 2:34 | history | asked | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |