<p>But again - if the adcom is going to have to temper the parent letters by recognizing - hey, Johnny’s parents are both well-educated professionals who crafted very insightful prose about Johnny, whereas Mary’s parents are less-educated or not-English-speakers who didn’t really know what more to say other than to say that Mary is hard-working and really wants to go to college Y – then WHAT IS THE POINT? It is just information that is redundant to what they already know from the rest of the application, zip code, high school attended, and so forth -that Johnny is privileged and Mary isn’t. </p>
<p>I find it stupid that adcoms even ask for GC letters when they KNOW they have to discount most of them from Average Public High, since they already KNOW the kid goes to Average Public High. It’s the same principle here. Exactly the same. It’s providing context about the kid that is already known from the rest of the app.</p>