Stanford specifically discourages alumni from submitting recommendations—I’ve talked to them as an alum about this precise issue. If you get a recommendation from an alum who also happens to be your teacher, coach, minister, or employer, great. But otherwise, it’s not recommended.

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Top 20 school (not slac)

Letter of recommendation is for “other” (not counselor or teacher) bc of kid’s leadership and extensive impact. Letter is excellent (superlatives and lots of examples).

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So as an example, kid volunteers teaching a finance class at a school for low income kids for many years and letter writer knows abt that bc letter writer is a director of the ec program at the school.

I think this is more a situation where it's a good supplemental recommendation letter, and the writer happens to be an alum (which can't hurt).

This shouldn't supplant the two core teach recs, but does seem like a great supplemental recommendation.