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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only a couple colleges expect everything to be submitted by the deadline. Even Michigan, famous for this, emailed counselors to extend the supporting documents deadline to Monday.

Mountains out of mole hills here. [/quote]

I agree.

And I’m the teacher who recently posted that I’ll only write letters once they are officially requested, and even that angered someone. There’s really no grace extended to teachers on this thread. It’s like people just want to be angry. [/quote]

I dont know about that. I think people just want clarity. I assume if a student asks a teacher in junior year and the teacher says yes - BUT there is more to it, that the teachers has expressed those conditions. (ie, "I will happily write you a supporting letter - but I will not do it until you have confirmed this in September by doing x, y, z).  if they don't express those conditions, then it's weird.

In my family, if you agree to go to prom with someone, you've agreed to go to prom. there's no backing out, there's not trading up. same for LOR. [/quote]

Sure. And when students ask me verbally, I verbally respond that I won’t start until I see the request online. They are well aware. Our counseling department repeatedly tells students that teachers often don’t start until the request is online.

Is it that teachers are supposed to jump on these verbal requests in the spring? Because I used to do that, only to find that many students ask multiple teachers and then request only 1-2 in the fall. That means we are writing letters that aren’t used. I don’t think that’s a good use of our time, which is precious.

As someone who has written 100% of the letters I’ve committed to AND as someone who has never submitted late on 22 years, I think I have a pretty good process by now.

I don’t understand the hostility toward teachers that has extended for 20 pages now. I just don’t get it. [/quote]

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