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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recommendation letters are worthless. Don't bother getting any other recs. No one submits a negative rec, so where's the value?[/quote]

I will disagree with this.  My son was not in the pool, but we felt he was a strong candidate for AAP.  We already had one child in AAP, so we had a feel for the level he would need to perform at, and he was clearly there.  We got three recs-- one from his martial arts instructor (who was able to attest to my son's commitment and dedication), one from the teacher of his after school robotics class (who approached me about writing a letter because she felt he belonged in AAP, even before she knew anything about my son's scores), and one from a math teacher from a summer math class he took, who basically said that he was doing mid 3rd grade math at the end of first grade.  My son's grades were good (mostly 4s, some 3s earlier in the year), and I suspect from the way she spoke that his 2nd grade teacher did a high GBRS, although I never requested to see it.  But I honestly think that three consistently high recommendations were what put him over the threshold into AAP.

I hope this helps.[/quote]

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