Do recommendations from alumni help in the admissions process?

yankeefan1234
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:28:32 +0000

Yeah, it depends…
lets say you don’t really know the headmaster but you kinda just got him to write a recommendation, then that won’t help
whereas if you have grown up with him and he has known you for a while as a person it will help…
But, also are you sure they wrote you a rec or did they just say that because headmasters meet with a lot of people, like their friends they have known because they want them to write recs. but in the end the reguraly just say they will and they don’t cause they can only write recs. for so many people…
But, just to make it clear don’t count on the rec. in any way as a sign of acceptance