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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is reality. Counselors don’t know the majority of kids well enough to write personal, detailed letters. Neither do teachers, to be honest. Of all the millions of things on their plates, this is an easy one to outsource.[/quote]
As an aside, it feels like colleges put unwarranted levels of emphasis on recs. Yet one more aspect of the application that may not reflect reality and may be inherently unfair.[/quote]
Our school has an annual college night for 10th graders to kick off the process and give an overview of expectations, and part of it is hearing from about a dozen reps from a variety of colleges. One of the messages was that they assume the letters will be glowing and positive so they don’t spend much time on them. They skim for additional info - in case there’s an explanation of extenuating circumstances about the student or a transcript issue that doesn’t show up anywhere else in the application - but otherwise don’t pay them that much attention. [/quote]

To state the obvious…they do pay attention if any LOR is not glowing or positive.

The #1 recommendation from a UPenn admissions session was make sure you get a glowing and positive recommendation…because they are surprised by how many just neutral recs they see (rarely would someone ever trash a kid…but neutral is kind of the equivalent).

Hence why they advise you ask teachers directly if they have any concerns writing  you a strong recommendation.  Most if they do will then just politely decline for some other reason (writing too many already or some other excuse).

I realize that you can’t do much about the counselor other than perhaps meet with them if they seem hesitant to write a strong Rec.[/quote]

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