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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How important are letter of reccomendations submitted for college applications. A lot of parents write their kids got an excellent letter of reccomendation - how do they get to know? Are these letters not sent directly to the colleges. How do parents get to see them, or know the kid got a strong/excellent letter of reccomendation. Just trying to understand[/quote]

Some teachers send them to the students after admissions are over. We had that happen. The ones sent were amazing, “best student in X many yrs” type with details. Both of our kids at ivies unhooked and our 3rd one likely will get into their non-ivy T10 ED: they are also well liked by teachers and have glowing remarks on interim grading summaries. The LORs help a lot, if they are good. They also hurt if bad. Some of kids friends never got any sent to them. One likely had terrible recs—top kid but rude to every teacher and disliked by peers, very toxic personality which came directly from the mom. They were shut out of all t20s in a school that sends 5-10% to top schools [/quote]

This is terribly sad. Why would any teacher write such a bad reccomendation letter which could spoil the chances of the kids getting into college. Better not to write in such a case. Most teachers are on their self inflated ego trips, and never seem to realise they need to encourage students, and if they cant, or they feel the kid is not good enough or worthy of their reccomendation, just politely decline or not write the letter [/quote]

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