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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ask the counselors for copies of the recs and send them in yourself.[/quote]

No, not workable for many reasons.  [b]Certain items must come from the school -- the school transcript, the counselor forms.  [/b]The teacher recommendations now for most schools are processed electronically, often through a Naviance account.  Even if you don't agree with the recommendations, your child can still go ahead and apply and the high schools won't stand in the way of that.  Look at all the examples on this thread -- "the school said my child shouldn't apply to Ivy X and s/he did and now they're at Ivy X" -- the high schools are not black-balling applications or throwing the forms into the trash.

The child should say politely, "thank you, Mr. Doe, but my parents and I have talked and we would like to go ahead and add [Harvard/Stanford/Duke/MIT] on my list as well as my other schools."

The counselor will most likely say, "Okay, that's fine."  They might also say "That's fine but I would still like to talk to you about the rest of your list."

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Duh. But they cannot refuse to send them.[/quote]

Sure.

OP loves drama a bit too much.

Yes, counsellors can be biased (or, from their perspective, look for the greater good) but at the end of the day OP is the mom of her own kids and it's the family and the kid, not the high school, that decides where to apply.
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