How much do Notre Dame & UPenn value alumni connections?

Tinfoyl
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:40:25 +0000

If the alumni is a teacher of yours then I could see asking them for a recommendation as a little bit helpful to your overall education. However, having two doctors who have attended the university to write you recommendations is not worthwhile in the least. No matter how they describe you in their recommendations, their words are pretty much meaningless because there is no context to them. The admissions staff would probably not even read them because they don’t like extra recommendations unless they carry significant merit.