Bad Counselor Recs

TheAscendancy
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:21:15 +0000

I come from a school with a fairly large class size (733 students). My counselor hardly knows me (or anyone else for that matter) and would most likely write a poor rec. My friend asked whether he could submit an additional teacher rec in place of a counselor rec to Wash U recently and they said they would accept an additional teacher rec as long as he explained his large class size and impersonal relationship with the counselors. I was wondering if other schools would also be willing to do this – especially the upper-level elite schools to which I will be applying.