Do recommendations from alumni help in the admissions process?

Parlabane
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:12:20 +0000

If the Taft Head is writing his own AO about you, I maintain that it doesn’t mean much of anything; it sounds like a social nicety, a favor to Mom or Dad. If the Head felt that strongly about you, he’d drop his own email to the AO that would go in your file. An actual recommendation smells weird to me.