Waive right to access letter of recommendation?

Sleepy 7 · Mar 14, 2006

I waive my right , I hope to preserve my references trust in our "relationship" just my thought.

sandman1914 · Mar 15, 2006

Hey I was wondering if anyone had some info. on this one. When filling out my portion for letters of reference for CRNA programs they give you the option "I waive my rights to access this recommendaton" or "I do not waive my rights to access this recommendation." I am just wondering, does it reflect poorly on the student if they choose to not waive their rights? In the past for other programs/jobs I usually never end up seeing the letters of reference, so I have not been given the choice as I remember. I am not worried at all, just wondering the pros/cons of each.

If you are applying to multiple schools, don't waive you rights at one school so you can get an idea of the type of recommendations you are having submitted with your application.

rn29306 · Mar 15, 2006

All my schools required me to hand the letters of rec back into them along with the respective application. The letters of rec were supposed to be sealed by the evaluator and then signed with their signature across the sealed edge so the school knew it was not opened. Say you want to go to school 1, 2,3, and 4. Take an application for school # 5 (that you already know up front about not wanting to go to) and have them fill out that information. Open school #5's letters and read them. This will provide a hint as to what your evaluators think of you. Obviously, pull any bad letters from a questionable evaluator from applications for the schools you plan on attending.

This is when jealousy will rear its ugly head by others. Don't get bit by it.

TexasCCRN · Mar 19, 2006

I did not waive my rights to see my letters, but with that said i knew people were going to give me good recommendations. The only reason i did not waive my rights was to be able to see the nice things that they said about me and to be able to let them know how much i appreciated what they said.

apaisRN, RN, CRNA · Mar 20, 2006

Some of my references gave me a copy of their letters as well as a sealed one for the school. I believe that there is federal law providing students with the right to see all their own files, so by waiving it you free the writer of the recommendation from any worry that you might see it and sue them because you didn't get into the school of your dreams or something.

Brian_SRNA · Jun 30, 2006

Great advicw. ALso, discuss with the writer what might want to be said. Maybe they have not written a recocmmendation for anesthesia before. Also, give them a resume and goal list or maynbe a short personal statement, trust me, it helps.

japaho41 · Jul 17, 2006

If you are applying to multiple schools, don't waive you rights at one school so you can get an idea of the type of recommendations you are having submitted with your application.

That is a good idea, especially if you are not admitted the first go around.

WVUturtle514 · Jul 17, 2006

All my schools required me to hand the letters of rec back into them along with the respective application. The letters of rec were supposed to be sealed by the evaluator and then signed with their signature across the sealed edge so the school knew it was not opened. Say you want to go to school 1, 2,3, and 4. Take an application for school # 5 (that you already know up front about not wanting to go to) and have them fill out that information. Open school #5's letters and read them. This will provide a hint as to what your evaluators think of you. Obviously, pull any bad letters from a questionable evaluator from applications for the schools you plan on attending.
This is when jealousy will rear its ugly head by others. Don't get bit by it.

This is a really good idea and one that I'm glad that I did!!! I got my applications together for three schools and then I only ended up sending out one, so I went ahead and looked at the other letters beforehand. One of my letters of recommendation (from one of my nursing professors) said, "Good student, works hard." AND THAT WAS IT!!!!! I was apalled that a professor (an FNP with a master's degree) would do something like that. And it was sloppily handwritten at that, not even a typed letter. I am sooooooo glad that I didn't send that letter out or I would have looked like a moron. Can't trust anybody nowadays!!! Best of luck to you!! :trout:

LydiaNN · Jul 17, 2006

All my schools required me to hand the letters of rec back into them along with the respective application. The letters of rec were supposed to be sealed by the evaluator and then signed with their signature across the sealed edge so the school knew it was not opened. Say you want to go to school 1, 2,3, and 4. Take an application for school # 5 (that you already know up front about not wanting to go to) and have them fill out that information. Open school #5's letters and read them. This will provide a hint as to what your evaluators think of you. Obviously, pull any bad letters from a questionable evaluator from applications for the schools you plan on attending.
This is when jealousy will rear its ugly head by others. Don't get bit by it.

I just had to do this last week, hand two sealed letters to an evaluator. However, both of the letters were written by people (current boss and boss from a former job) who gave me the letter with the envelope paper clipped to it. I ended up seeing what was written.

romie · Jul 17, 2006

Sometimes you can never be too trusting. I had a former professor write a letter of reccomendation for a nursing school app. While I didn't get a chance to read what she had written, during my nursing school interview, the interviewer had revealed what the professor had written about me-- although it was eloquently worded, she had said something rather nasty about me, nearly ruining my chances of getting into the school. Fortunatley I did get in. Needless to say, I will never ask this person to provide another reference again.

Brian_SRNA · Jul 18, 2006

You would think that they would decline to write it, if they coudln't glorify you!!!

UGHHHHH

Brian:angryfire