Chance me (again?)

kisskisskiss
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:32:51 +0000

Thanks, prathiba6.

I’m bumping this because I talked to my guidance counselor from HS and confirmed what I thought they did, which is just send the old application support material along with the application. (That is, new guidance counselor recommendations aren’t written, nor are the old ones modified.) This means that my recommendations will probably hurt me, because I was not a hard worker in high school, nor was I blessed with the ability to perform at an extremely high level and get As without trying. That’s why I’m at Vassar.

My question is this: I know the old recs will hurt me, but how badly will they hurt me? I could swear up and down on whatever object or to whatever deity college counselors like that I am a seriously different person than I was two years ago and that I now have a work ethic and actual, real-life ambitions that extend past “I want to go to college because people told me I have to.” I know I can communicate that in my essay, but then it becomes my word against, basically, the word (as interpreted by my high school guidance counselor) of a younger, stupider me. What do I have to do to get them to take New Me at face value?

And while we’re at it, how do I go about getting a teacher here to write me a great rec?