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[quote=Anonymous]I have a friend who works in admissions at a school very popular with applicants from Yorktown. S/he/they said the stuff going on with Yorktown hurts their applicants, full stop. He said it's not just the potential for embarrassment that entitled kids bring. The hidden cost of the administration's laxity is that it makes admissions people believe at least some kids see their teachers' letters of recommendation. My friend said "not every kid can be the best in the last ten years of teaching", and yet those are the letters that come in. It's easy for teachers to write letters where admissions officers can read between the lines and see the kid isn't that strong, at least relative to peers. But YHS teachers don't do this at all unless a kid clearly is not so privileged (you can tell from the application). They can't prove it of course, but they think YHS must collect copies of the letters that can be seen if parents intimidate the administration enough.[/quote]
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