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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year was bad but this seems worse in some ways.

Walls' subjective weighting of letters of rec is worth way more than GPA.

Here is an example:

Student 1:  3.0 GPA (2 pts); great letters of rec (15+15 points); total 32
Student 2: 4.0 GPA (10 pts); middling letters of rec (10+10 points); total 30

Student 1 is ranked over Student 2 for an interview.[/quote]

yep, and there was no standardizing of the letters of rec.  You could have a teacher who is naturally effusive.  Or one that is naturally terse. 
Then end result of a staff member reading these and assigning a numeric value to them could have no bearing on the kid but everything to do with the communication style of the teacher.

Let me tell you--I am not a bubbly person. You'll never hear me calling my most valued employee "the best thing ever or completely invaluable to the team."  I'll give you a very measured accounting of important and/or impressive things that person has accomplished. 
Someone spending 2 minutes reading my rec would likely not give my employee a 10/10.  Thankfully never has an employee of mine applied for a position based solely on a numeric value given to my comments.  :roll:

That's why for college applications recs hold very little weight and many colleges don't even ask for them or consider them.  [/quote]

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