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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really a problem since grad students are TAing intro courses and, by the time you're ready to apply for grad school, you've been working with profs directly for at least a year (probably at least two years, if you're planning on grad school) in your major.  Also, even schools with grad student TAs in large survey courses typically have other seminar-style courses available to freshman and sophomores.  [/quote]

As a TA at a public Ivy, I had at least a half-dozen students ask me to write letters of recommendation for them for grad school, med school, law school, etc. It was kinda sad.[/quote]

Are you sure that was a problem wrt instruction rather than career-advising?  Kid from a family that is not familiar with grad/prof school apps might well follow the HS pattern and choose the recommender who knows him/her best.  And, presumably, yours wasn't the kids' only rec.  Do law/med schools even care?  Honestly, I don't see how anyone who is a serious candidate for a PhD program could get through college without having rec-worthy relationships with at least two profs in their field.  [/quote]

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