This post was written in 2014 - the first year that recommender questions were "standardized" (insert laugh track here). Most of the content in this post is still relevant but many details have now changed from school to school.
So yesterday, we ripped apart certain schools’ well-meaning attempts to make things easier on you. What impact does it really have, that Ross and Kellogg and Columbia, and to some extent UCLA, have standardized the questions that they ask recommenders to respond to in letters of recommendation? The reality is that you’re unlikely to benefit…
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