<p>Exactly, tkm256. ahaha</p>
<p>I was just wondering, did you guys ever think CC could be used for sabotage? The OP is clearly a ■■■■■, as none of his stuff makes sense. But say there was a real applicant that one knew in real life. For whatever reason, that person (who knows the applicant), could come on CC and pretend to be this said applicant. They could then list stats saying that they wrote their own recs, etc etc. Could this possibly be reported to an AdCom and a perfectly innocent applicant get screwed over? Scary to think about…</p>
<p>It’s unlikely that even if yalekid was reported that it would be taken seriously enough to reject him for that reason. That’s not to say that he isn’t of questionable moral character though…but nonetheless, I do not think that anything that anyone writes in any of these forums will have any impact, positve or negative, over his/her decisions.</p>
<p>tennisdude, you’ve sure thought this out!</p>
<p>;) haha just kidding.</p>
<p>I believe Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Stowe?</p>
<p>There are quite few people out there in the world who write their own recs. <em>Shrug</em> What can we do about it? Nothing is fair.</p>
<p>I’m surprised by the reaction on this thread. Based on what I’ve seen and heard, a significant number of applicants have a big part in the writing of their reccommendations. Sometimes it’s the whole letter (though the guidance counselor has to still sign the letter, which means the letter is relatively accurate). More commonly, the applicant provides some part of the letter, such as the applicants specific qualities, interests or extracurriculars. This is made to seem very normal, e.g., “could you write a few lines about yourself.”</p>
<p>I would estimate that almost half of all letters fall into the broader category. As to the writing the whole letter, at least ten per cent.</p>
<p>Just my guesses.</p>
<p>i find this very, very sad.</p>
<p>That is really lame if it is true.</p>
<p>ivyalumini, are we at a disadvantage then?? My counselor and teachers never told me to write recs for myself…Gr…</p>
<p>umm, at my school, we don’t even get to look at any of the recs…</p>
<p>Yep, my teachers put it in an envelope and sign over the seal. I studied my German teacher’s through the lamp light, though…it said something like “helpful…student…morale…” and that’s about all I could discern :rolleyes:</p>
<p>wow, yalekid, you’re pathetic.</p>
<p>“I was just wondering, did you guys ever think CC could be used for sabotage? The OP is clearly a ■■■■■, as none of his stuff makes sense. But say there was a real applicant that one knew in real life. For whatever reason, that person (who knows the applicant), could come on CC and pretend to be this said applicant. They could then list stats saying that they wrote their own recs, etc etc. Could this possibly be reported to an AdCom and a perfectly innocent applicant get screwed over? Scary to think about…”</p>
<p>I second this motion. It is scary… Yale is looking for any reason to reject kids.</p>
<p>Unreliable narrator- a literary device in which the credibility of the
narrator is seriously compromised. This unreliability can be due to
psychological instability or other disability, a powerful bias, a lack of
knowledge, or even a deliberate attempt to deceive the reader or
audience. Unreliable narrators are usually first-person narrators, but
third-person narrators can also be unreliable.</p>
<p>From Agatha Christie’s detective novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd</p>
<p>I am rather pleased with myself as a writer. What could be neater,
for instance, than the following: “The letters were brought in at
twenty minutes to nine. It was just ten minutes to nine when I left him,
the letter still unread. I hesitated with my hand on the door handle,
looking back and wondering if there was anything I had left undone.”</p>
<p>This is a quote from the end of the novel where the narrator is
revealed to be the murderer. He talked all about the events and never lied in
the whole of the book. But the important thing is that He left out some
key facts and situations which would have been important to realizing
the culprit. The narrator in this situation was unreliable because he
was actually the one who had committed the crime.</p>
<p>Not sure if Yalekid is serious or not, but I know one kid that not only wrote his own letter but is falsely claming to be under represented minority. Some people have no shame. I wish that Yale did require pictures!</p>
<p>if u guys never went 2 a ****ty public school u dont understand that the teachers can barely write and they dont, if you dont do it for them then they wont do it, ive had two teachers ask me 2 do it for them</p>
<p>Actually public school person here, and in our case the kid asked the teacher if he could write it.</p>
<p>I go to a huge public school. Some of the teachers here actually asks students to write their own recs, so yeah, good point…</p>