Out of curiosity... reading your LOR?

[belle00]

How many of you have actually read your LOR(s)? 

 

I have great relationships with everyone who agreed to write a LOR, and I made A's in all of their classes. There have been a few horror stories on here where people say they had the same experience but got a lackluster LOR in the end. So I'm curious, has anyone had access to their LOR? 

 

 

[babycakes]

I read 2/3 of my LORs, they were both very positive. The two are from supervisors for my job, but one is actually adjunct faculty at one of the schools I'm applying to and the other is actually working on her EdD at the same school. I think they're a lot less stiff about it because they're not necessarily academics. My 3rd is from a professor I worked under for two years, she's very kind but a little on the formal side when it comes to personality. I'm sure her letter is much more objective but I did well in her lab and the only thing that would be considered "bad" is that I left the project I was working on to enter my current field and possibly construe it as money related.  (It was not, I was totally into my project but I could not see myself making a living in lab research. ) 

[jamc8383]

I got to read one.  It was very complimentary and "urged" the adcomm to admit me.  

 

Some insight into my application mania: The recommender wrote that there was "no other current student more suited for study in a phD program" and I was like, current?  Don't you mean, in all of history, ever?

 

This process does insane things to the mind. 

[belle00]

Literally laughing out loud. I cannot wait to submit my last one on February 1st.

This process does insane things to the mind. 

[geographyrocks]

I caught a glimpse at one of the cover letters for a LOR that the chair of the department wrote.  He checked that I was in the 1% and I thought, "I'm finally in the 1% and I didn't have to screw over the American public to get there!"  lol

 

Jamc is right.  This process DOES do funny things to the brainpan.