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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At private schools, rec letters are more than enough to signal the strength of the students.  Experienced AOs can immediately discern different levels of students by looking at the letters.[/quote]

Can someone provide an example? How does anyone know?[/quote]
One example is, the standard counselor form asks the counselor to give, essentially, the student’s class rank — best, excellent (top 10%), etc. This can be subjective, not necessarily GPA based, and at private schools it’s conventional to rank the students compared to the rest of the applicant pool, not the whole student body.

This was an issue in a Sidwell lawsuit a decade ago or so, where Sidwell had given a student different rankings for different colleges. That was Sidwell’s defense, and the court accepted it, and the chronicle of higher ed published a piece expressing shock that the student and her immigrant parents had ever thought that that part of the recommendation form could mean what it literally said. [/quote]

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