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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school is always going to give top recs to the top kids.  They need Ivy admits and that's their best shot to get them.  they're not looking out for your kid, they're looking  out for their cohort.  [/quote]

You are making big stretches regarding assumptions for recommendations. That 3.8 might be a bit weaker in one area and the letter writing teacher has no real insight to that, especially when the student has been the most committed to his/her subject of any kid in the last 10 years. This thread is sounding like the 'test score' threads where parents with the top stats are desperate to believe that their kids always have the advantages but it's just not so. I have one of those 3.95 kids and they did well. There were also 3.8 kids with equal results. I wouldn't die on the hill that is was DDs extra bit of GPA that was a differentiator because I don't believe that it was.[/quote]

This is my second time going through the process post covid and I strongly disagree.  And that’s fine.[/quote]

NP: I am a parent whose niche-y interest 3.8uw kid (weaker grades in math/ very pointy humanities kid) did much better than the higher GPA/stats older sibling. Both got into great T20 schools. 
But 3.8uw had many strong T10/T20 and Ivy options and several more WLs. High stat sibling did not - only had one T20 and many WLs.
3.8uw may have gotten the strongest LOR from one of the humanities teachers that year, with whom DC was close through a variety of classes and ECs.
Both are doing well in college. 3.8uw is at the higher-ranked school.

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