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Anonymous User wrote:Here's an issue. I'm applying for some state judicial clerkships. I have recs from work and from an externship, but figured a letter of rec from my legal writing professor would be a good idea.

Although we weren't supposed to see the letters, they were uploaded to our career services website in anticipation of being sent to the judges, so I looked.

The letter says something, although flattering, very very false. In fact it's probably so false that I fear it might make my application appear misleading.

What do I even do? I don't want to have to explain this one away.

dabigchina wrote:Can't OP just request to have this letter withdrawn without explaining why? It's his application, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it.

Npret wrote:

dabigchina wrote:Can't OP just request to have this letter withdrawn without explaining why? It's his application, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it.

It doesn't seem like it was submitted so he should just tell career services that he saw it and there was a massive error. Now that he knows about it he can't let a misleading letter go through

rpupkin wrote:

Npret wrote:

dabigchina wrote:Can't OP just request to have this letter withdrawn without explaining why? It's his application, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it.

It doesn't seem like it was submitted so he should just tell career services that he saw it and there was a massive error. Now that he knows about it he can't let a misleading letter go through

But why can't OP just follow dabigchina's advice and withdraw the letter without explaining why? The problem with your approach is that OP has to admit that he violated school policy by reading the letter.