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[quote=Anonymous]Wow! These responses are interesting. I am a HS teacher who writes many college recommendations. It is a burden for sure but I have never asked any kids to write it themselves. I also don’t ask for a brag sheet as I try to focus on the student in my class. The brag sheet information gets included in other parts of the application so I don’t want to be repetitive. I do try to limit recommendations to about 25 students each year. I have 150 kids each year in all my classes. I work hard at building relationships with my students but obviously it works better with some than others. I say no to some kids when I don’t know them well or I don’t have many positive things to say. Recommendations are a lot of work but I recognise they are very important for college applications. I usually spend several weekends working on recs. 17 and 18 year olds are too young to write their own recommendations [/quote]
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