So my school encourages you to waive your right to view the evaluations, however I talked to one of my Biology Professors, he said to never do that because I have the right to see these evaluations and it is voluntary so to never check the box that says "waive my right to view this evaluation"! What did you guys do? I have no idea what to do?
Waive right to view evaluations?
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If you don't waive the right, the dental schools won't take the letters seriously, because that means that the writer knows that the student will be able to read the letter, and they might not be as honest as they would if they knew the student would never see the letter.
So in conclusion, ALWAYS waive the right.
So in conclusion, ALWAYS waive the right.
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It is hard to imagine that evaluators will be less than honest simply because the student might see the LOR.
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Would you enen consider someone who wouldn't be anything but positive about you? I had no hesitations about waiving my rights because I knew that my LORs were going to be only positive things about me. I trusted the people who were righting the LORs. If you have any hesitations which make you want to keep your right to review the letters, I wouldn't use those people for LORs.
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If you pick a person who you know and trust, and who you're confident will write you a good letter, and you should only ask people who you think will be able to write you good letters, then no, there wouldn't be any difference. If the person doesn't really care what the student thinks, there probably wouldn't be a difference either. It's how the Adcoms want it, and that's their reasoning, so I'm all for following their directions, haha.
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You are right. It is one of those case where you have a right but it comes with a stiff price.
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There are three good reasons to waive your rights to see recommendations:
- It is commonly assumed that your references will be more candid in their statements about you if they know the recommendation will be kept confidential.
- If you are not admitted to a given institution, you have no legal right to see the recommendations anyway, unless you are a currently or previously-enrolled student at that university
- If you have chosen your references carefully so that you know they are going to give you a good recommendation, there is little need to see the recommendation once you are admitted.
