<p>"Everyone in the system KNOWS that GC recs are one big fat joke "</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the system is ( disadvantage for my kid), but I didn’t know (another disadvantage?). But if the system knows GCs are a joke, surely they know parents are a joke too. Surely those who don’t get asked to write, or don’t want to don’t have to, but if my fellow parents don’t want colleges to ask, how does it help to debate it here? Or maybe folks are telling parents who have been asked they shouldn’t respond? For the benefit of their own kids or the good of mankind? </p>
<p>If you thought it COULD help, would you say no, don’t do it? Why do we hang out here if not to help kids succeed, whatever that means, in their college search?</p>