I’m super worried and sad. I applied ED to my number 1 choice as a finance major. The school only requires 1 rec but accepts 2. I told me GC to only send the rec from my math teacher. My GC, however, accidentally sends 2, one from math and another from French. The problem with the French one is that I specifically told her to write about how I would fit in to the medical field. I was planning on going into medicine until recently so this rec is no longer useful and I decided I’d keep it there and just not send it anywhere. Now my business school app has a rec talking about how the only career right for me is medicine. My GC admits it is her fault but says that she can only send an email now to tell them not to consider the French rec. I worked so hard the last 4 years academically, worked for months on the supplementary essays and now I will be rejected because of a mistake that wasn’t even mine. I emailed the college but have yet to hear back.
No, your GC did not get you rejected. Your title implies that you aready received a rejection. What college are you applying to?
Some business school grads go to medical school and there are combined MD/MBA programs. If you are rejected from NYU it will not be because of that reference letter.
This is exactly why we warn students about having specialized recs and trying to mix & match them for different schools. This happens all too often. It isn’t worth the risk. But you also don’t know the final result yet. You could get in. And if you don’t, it won’t be certain that this is the cause.
I think you are over worrying.
Don’t some people go to med school after getting a business degree?
And besides, even if you’ve decided Med school is for sure out of the plans, don’t forget hospitals (and everything medical) use business people too. There is a way to show how the interests can overlap.
Besides, you can’t change it. And if the school is too rigid and thinks it matters, why would you still they they are the best choice?
@TomSrOfBoston and @intparent
Would the college delete the reccomendation? Like would they not even read it if my GC tells them the error
I don’t understand a recommendation letter from a French teacher focusing on your so called interest in medicine. Other than a passing remark on your interest in medicine, he should be talking about you as a student and your interest in French language, culture and literature.
They may or may not. If it was a good recommendation it shouldn’t really matter.
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I rarely change titles of threads because I don’t want to misinterpret the OP’s thought process. However, the original title was so misleading, bordering on click-bait, that I had no choice.
Well good news is that after my GC talked with them and explained, they discarded it.