<p>Is there really a peer rec needed for Wesleyan this year? I’m really, really worried becuase the friends that would write decent recs also are applying to Wes this year.</p>
<p>is it optional?</p>
<p>What? There’s a peer recommendation? Oh that’s nice because I have a peer rec from a friend and it’s really good.</p>
<p>Presumably a friend wouldn’t try to sabotage your chances of getting into a school you really want to go to…right? Besides, it would be silly to do something like that. The admissions committee doesn’t have a quota for people from the same school – just ask Stuyvesant High about that. If you’re both top applicants you’ll both get in, and I doubt the peer recommendation (which they didn’t even do when I was applying, for what it’s worth) will really affect that one way or another.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize there was a peer rec. When I applied two years ago there wasn’t as far as I could tell :)</p>
<p>No peer rec when my D applied last year (for class of 2010). I would double check tha app forms/instructions; my suspicion is that there is no such requirement.</p>
<p>Yeah, I didn’t have to do anything of the sort and I still made it into 2010 with perks :-)</p>