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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Admissions person here

I'm going to try to take some of the questions off of the first posters shoulders[/quote]

Welcome fellow Admissions person!  This is 12:02 and it's great to have additional voices, particularly as practices may differ from place to place.  I agree with what you've said.  With respect to 09:52's question about a letter from another family, I think it can help occasionally (and agree with PP's points about the letter) as long as you don't put too much of your hopes on it.  As with all sorts of letters, including college recommendation letters, a lot depends on the quality of the letter itself.  If it is just sort of a 'pro forma' letter ("Family X is lovely and Child X would be great at this school"), then in my experience it is not given weight.  If the family knows your family quite well (maybe from being at the prior school together), and can talk about how your family (including the applicant) would add to the life of the school.  As PP also noted, the identity of the letter writer does matter.  As a threshold matter, are they in good standing?  But that is sort of a floor.  If the letter writer is well known to the school (multiple kids) and has served in some significant capacity (board of trustees, parents associations, etc), that helps it get more "air time."  As 09:52 recognized, of course, it is a relatively small part of the picture and something to think of in an effort to push a "maybe" into a yes.  Full disclosure, though, it was more the exception than the rule in my experience.  Nevertheless, it doesn't hurt.[/quote]

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