Devon wrote:
Does it water down how they look at the recommendation as a whole, or do they just not really pay attention to the ratings in that case, just putting weight on the recommender's essay answers?
Yes. I think they would look to match the ratings with the essay answers and see if they hold water or if the recommender just did lip service.
My guess is that many schools find the comfort in ratings that are easy to quantify and grade and thus use numerical evaluations (there is some comfort in numbers
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