Reference help urgent!!!

Thread Starter Reference help urgent!!! Follow 2 days ago 2d ago Quote: Originally Posted by georgiemc I got a pretty **** reference from my teacher when I applied to university last year - it was nearly identical to a classmate of mine and just listed my extracurricular activities and some good qualities of mine. She obviously was rushed for time and didn't put much effort in. But I got into university and this was for Psychology at Glasgow Uni which is ranked highly for the subject. I don't think a reference will hinder your application if it's good, but references are helpful for more disadvantaged applications which can be bigged up by a good reference.You're obviously very worried about this though. If she is your only option for a reference it's better for you to ask her to amend her reference and for it to be awkward than for it to possibly affect your university application which is more impor...
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