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True this, but my suggestion would be to also include a "suggested/sample" LOR that you took the time to compose . Then (hopefully) all the person has to do is "wordsmith" minor changes to the story of how great you are. Who is more vested/knowledgeable about you, your career and the catch phrases the legacy carriers are currently "consumed" with. Hopefully, you have done your due diligence and with the prep you have been doing as an applicant you can control your "story" better than your "writer friend". I know that the recc's that I have written, I always appreciated the gesture from the applicant and I can tell you that my kid has written close to a hundred of recc's and that is the way it goes down. IDK, maybe it's a military thing. (BTW, when I contact the person I am asking to do the favor of, I do say something like, " I have taken the liberty of composing a sample draft for your perusal. Feel free to use any/some or all of it and/ort change it to reflect your writing style.) This could be especially helpful if the recommendation is from more of a character reference ....like a volunteer organization that you do charitable works for. BTW, I would also coordinate with the person to see what he was going to submit, PRIOR to him uploading it....a whole host of reasons for that....


JMHO