<p>@awcntdb: Granted homeschool kids have different routes for outside substantiation. But NO WHERE is a family member’s recommendation going to be of use to yale admissions.</p>
<p>Also, ridiculously nervous applicants are TERRIBLE judges of what’s reasonable and will pile on all sorts of stuff (i recall one kid who sent his 38 page paper with every app and another who submitted 26 additional LORs). Yale’s language is more blunt than other colleges. I’m sure the reason being experience of multiple failures of the “reasonable person test”</p>