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kryzak
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Location: SF, CA, USA
Concentration: Technology, Entrepreneurship, Digital Media & Entertainment
Schools:UC Berkeley Haas School of Business MBA 2010
GPA: 3.9 - undergrad 3.6 - grad-EE
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14 Oct 2007, 10:48
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Writing a draft for your recommender is against many school's honor code. But editing their grammar and sentence structure is not, especially if *I'm* not the one editing it. Unlike the finance/consulting/business world, in engineering companies, recommenders are much worse at writing rec letters and there aren't people readily available to edit the essays for them. You pretty much have to do everything yourself (other than write the letter for them).
As for BW, I wouldn't give them much credence. That forum is messed up.
As for BW, I wouldn't give them much credence. That forum is messed up.
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Agreed about not writing a draft. However, I do not expect recommenders to actually remember every single example. So I'm actually planning to give them specific instances to jog their memory, that would provide insight to the adcoms on specific characteristics.
14 Oct 2007, 11:12
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Sorry I kind of agree with the thinking that editting a rec is bordering on unethical. I don't think schools are reading those for anything other than content. As long as they can follow it there is no need to really be worried about the grammar and spelling. An adcom actually responded at an event that if your recommender does not speak english that you need to hire a translater to do that for them, you cant do it yourself. I think that editting is much the same.
I gave them enough information for my recs to understand how the process works, my positioning, key stuff that I have done they can talk about. Thats as much hand holding I am willing to do and beyond that is bordering on violating the ethics of the process.
Schools understand an engineer is going to have a rec that is going to be drastically different than a consultant. This is the first grad school rec outside of an PT engineering masters program either of my bosses have written.
I gave them enough information for my recs to understand how the process works, my positioning, key stuff that I have done they can talk about. Thats as much hand holding I am willing to do and beyond that is bordering on violating the ethics of the process.
Schools understand an engineer is going to have a rec that is going to be drastically different than a consultant. This is the first grad school rec outside of an PT engineering masters program either of my bosses have written.
