Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act FERPA Letter Form

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this video is an overview of furpa and the college application process furpa is the family educational rights and Privacy Act and why why that gets to Via conversation in the college application process is that gives you the the furpa regulates the privacy of your student education records uh furpa naturally gives you the right to review confidential letters of recommendation so for example teachers that might write letters of recommendation for you for college applications what we recommend and is pretty standard across um the country across the years um I in my experience I've only had you know maybe one student not wave their right which was not recommended but that the standard process is to wave your right to review your letters of recommendation so the reason why you do that and why we recommend that you do that is because it assures to colleges that the letters they're getting are honest candid and truthful some recommenders might even decline to write a letter for you if you're