Belle1987

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Thank you very much for your responses. No I won't speak to her about it because she's written like 10 references and already submitted them online, so she probably copy pasted the paragraph on those recs too! Good thing is I haven't submitted by personal statements yet so I will change my OWN statement because of her so that the admissions committee do suspect anything fishy. I saw this LoR because it was a hard copy for which I did not waive my right. She also wrote I would do successful in a phD program whilst the recommendation was for an MA (I am applying for phD and MA programs so I think she got confused) This isn't something acceptable right? I mean is it possible that she did not realize what type of consequences this could have for me? And yes she copy pasted it verbatim! She's printed it out and she obviously copy pasted from the electronic copy of my personal statement I sent her

My professor copy pasted an almost entire paragraph in my personal statement to her letter of recommendation, as if she has written it. What she has copy pasted is about my research interests, she has not even bothered to reword my research interests and has simply copy pasted the whole thing! I mean there isn't even quotation marks, I described my research interests in an idiosyncratic way, so it is not just a simple list that she copy pasted. What if the admissions committee thinks I wrote the LoR or that I copy pasted her words to my personal statement? Is it NORMAL for a professor to do this? Also she has spelling mistakes in her letter! She doesn't do spelling mistakes usually, so can it be that she did those mistakes just to give a sloppy appearance to her letter in order to harm my application?