Hunh?
The concern some applicants have with the recommendation letters being heavily weighted is that the teachers barely know them, especially this year. And you are required to use rec’s from current math and English teachers.
It’s a GIVEN for many of the posters here that they do their schoolwork and aren’t behavioral problems.
BUT if you are an applicant from a large public middle school (say, > 400 per grade), it’s likely that no matter how off the charts fantastic a student you are, unless you are a teacher’s kid or Mom’s active in the PTO, you are an unknown to the teachers and administration. At least in my district. Even if you are a straight A+ student. Heck, the administration at my kid’s school last year recognized the wrong student as president of NGHS in the moving up ceremony and no one noticed; the principal was shocked when I pointed out the error.