Sending in peer rec-- bad idea?

modestmelody
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:10:33 +0000

Yeah I think that it’s more that you can’t trust applicants peers as much as you can put faith in your applicants. You get to know an applicant from their file; you don’t know anything about who is writing about them.

It makes it hard-- peers really can’t default to some kind of authority in high school. Who knows who the heck they are and what they’re writing and from what perspective? It’s hard to extend the same kind of trust that you have for a teacher or professional or even an adult of some kind to another senior in high school who may just not be on the level of the applicant even.