When you are filling out your Common Application or Coalition Application, you are asked whether or not you will waive your right to review any recommendations submitted to a college on your behalf. Should you?

The answer is yes! Why? Because you are telling your teacher or guidance counselor that you trust them enough to write a positive letter for you. If you don’t, you shouldn’t have selected them! And from the college’s perspective, they know that the letter that they are receiving is genuine and honest — not written knowing that it will be heavily critiqued by a student or family.