(10-12-2017, 05:24 PM)sanantone Wrote: Sort of off topic, but letters of recommendation are a waste of paper and postage or email space. Who ever gets bad letters of recommendation? It's such a pointless requirement.
For over 30 years, I have been saying the same exact thing about work references. What is the point?
Who in their right mind is going to give a prospective employer a reference contact that is going to say something bad?
The only thing I can think of is maybe merely supplying references shows them you are able to make relations with people. But no need to contact them. Other than that, seems like a total waste to me.
Anyhow, about SNHU have a bad reputation due to it's being perceived as an online U, I wholeheartedly believe these reputations of online schools is shaped by other strictly B&M schools that are looking to perpetuate the old and try to hamper the new. Little by little, however, the stigma is going away. But it's taking too long, IMHO. Many people on this and other forums claim online degrees are actually harder and/or more work than B&M degrees.