Felix E. Guerrero, ApplyYourself: in order to send a letter of reference to a university admissions committee, you have to sign our crazy EULA

ApplyYourself: in order to send a letter of reference to a university admissions committee, you have to sign our crazy EULA »

Last night I got an email from a company called “ApplyYourself” informing me that one of my former students was applying to grad school, and could I go to their site and fill in a letter of reference for her? ApplyYourself appears to be a web-based reference-letter-management system that contracts with a number of universities, which seems like a sensible enough idea — I’ve been on all three sides of the reference-letter headache (writing them, evaluating them, and soliciting them) and that’s…