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<p>It seems like his chances are already essentially zero. I would email this Director and ask her politely if you could send in an additional letter (you don’t want to jeopardize your near guaranteed likely-letter acceptance). The veteran CC posters may disagree with me, but I think that he should send it in (with the permission of the Yale official). He’s already been rejected from another school early, his recommendations won’t add much to his file (according to OP), and I’m guessing from the litotes of the first statement quoted that his stats are near/below the 25% of Yale’s numbers. @T26E4, @entomom, @gibby: What do you guys think?</p>