Letter from Parents...????EDers Help

scribbler
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:49:34 +0000

My brother is at Duke and he wrote a letter saying how he saw I would fit into the campus and what I could contribute. It was sincere, and funny in places, and I thought that it added a perspective to the appliction that no teacher or counselor could contribute. Teachers write about your contribution to classes, counselors write about what you contrbute to the school, your transcript shows how you will stack up academically, you add about your ecs and try to give them some personality, the interview shows you don’t chop up small animals and carry them around in boxes…the additional letter is just for someone to say you are a good person and what you can bring to the community as that person. If there isn’t someone that can do that, or there is nothing additional to say, I would skip it.