<p>Will i am Yemeni but born in Qatar i don’t need financial aid and i am one of the best student in Qatar ( 1.9 million people live here)</p>
<p>stats
750 maths 760 reading 740 writing 2250 total
AP: none
IB: 7 physics HL 7 maths HL 7 Arabic A SL 7 english B HL 7 economics HL 6 chemistry SL
sat subject test : physics 800 maths ll 790
rank: 1/50</p>
<p>hooks: from the middle east recommendation letter from a nobel peace price(Tawakkul Karman) winner who is a family friend and a letter of recommendation from the prime minister of Qatar. </p>
<p>Leadership qualities and ec:</p>
<p>founder and captain of the robotics club for 3 years
won the national science fair for 2 years
swimming team captain for 1 year and a member for 3 years
competed in the international bot ball competition as the team caption for 2 years
founded a company that has $100,000 of revenue every year </p>
<p>Will that is about it do you think i can get in ?</p>
<p>It would be ethically wrong to ask a family friend to write a recommendation letter. The inability to know why it is wrong, I think would guarantee a rejection from every Ivy and top school.</p>
<p>I definitely disagree with you, perazziman. Why would you say that a recommendation letter is ethically wrong? You don’t think legacy students with relatives or friends on the school boards are being pitched that way?</p>
<p>Any recommendations from family will just be just like a friend family’s recommendation. They are looking to receive recommendation from internships, laboratory research teachers, voluntary activity, university teachers, executive chef in activities who knows you best and can say you are passionate for a such thing, and they know you are good in a field where they saw you. For instance I can receive a letter from an ex Minister of Education from my country who knows me very well(saw my in contests), but personally I think it will be better a recommendation from an actual university teacher from my country, because he can tell exactly who I am, and what I am doing(research).</p>
<p>In conclusion if you did something with you family laureate - writing books, political review , or other stuff it will be indicated. If is just your family friend a teacher recommendation will be better </p>
<p>Matthew 18:20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."</p>
<p>Internetaddict: I’m feeling generous. I’ll tell you why American univerisities do not value “celebrity” recommendation letters. All they tell them is who you or your family happen to know. Unless you personally had them oversee your work/research, that rec letter is next to nothing. It’s not about who you know but who you are.</p>
<p>Here’s what they would say: “Please consider X for admission to your school. I really don’t know X and have never interacted substantially with X but by the sake of my degree/nobel prize/fame, and since it is in your best interest to placate someone of my stature, please do what i say.”</p>
<p>This means nothing to American universities and you’ve wasted an opportunity for someone to actually say something about you as a person. In the USA, that is what matters – what the letter says about you – not the letter writer or his degrees or titles or celebrity.</p>
<p>Thank you for replying to my question, I am applying for the class of 2018 because i skipped a couple of years in school, so do u recommend me to remove parts of my application, or ask theoretical physicist ( he was a Harvard student ) i interned for to write me a letter of recommendation(he really likes me so he will write a great letter of recommendation).</p>
<p>Does he know your work? That’s the real question.</p>
<p>A first year teacher, who works closely with you, knows how you intereact and influence others and makes them better – is able to write a better rec letter for you than someone with a “title”. It’s about the interactoin and knowledge – that’s what’s valuable.</p>
<p>I would think recommendation letters from Tawakkul Karman and/or prime minister of Qatar do carry some weights at Harvard. I would suggest OP to send copy of letters to the president of Harvard University, so that the admission office would not ignore the letters.</p>
<p>4kidsdad I don’t know. If my father was the President of Congo, doesn’t say I am smart and I should be chosen for Harvard. Why they should select me inspite a intelligent and good applicant.</p>
<p>How many presidents and prime ministers are in the world.</p>
<p>There are 193 countries. In each 4 years a new president, prime minister will be selected. 193/4 * 40 * 5(20/4 years) = 9650 prime ministers and presidents in 20 years. How many ambassadors are ?</p>
<p>4kids: Harvard only wants a few rec letters. Here’s what they state</p>
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Which teachers should write recommendations?</p>
<p>Teachers who know the applicant well and who have taught him or her in academic subjects (preferably in the final two years of secondary school) most often provide us with the most valuable testimony.
Should students send supplementary recommendations?</p>
<p>While we can make careful evaluations with required recommendations, we are happy to read helpful letters from people directly familiar with applicants’ lives outside the classroom. Such letters are not necessary, however, and it is generally advisable to submit no more than two or three.</p>
<p>"Teachers who know the applicant well " “directly familiar” “submit no more than two or three” Sorry but some prince or well connected simpleton just don’t cut it. Have them send copies to the Pres’ office? Frankly the Pres of Harvard is more important than some of these people you’re suggesting. This is H, not the country club. It used to work like that. No longer. The name-dropping is frankly frowned upon.</p>
<p>“Supplementary materials can provide broader context to some parts of your application, but they can just as often be superfluous and distracting. For example, a letter from someone who supervised your extracurricular research project may answer important questions about the work you’ve done. But a third recommendation that raves about you, just as your other letters do, will not necessarily enhance your application. In fact, it may dilute the effect of the two required recommendations.”</p>
<p>We all want to believe that the Ivies are meritocracies. And, to some extent that is true. But, there is another side of the story. </p>
<p>There are many foreign students who come from well connected (ruling class, nobility, etc.) backgrounds and bring a type of diversity to these schools. Does anyone really believe that a letter from a US Senator about the child of a close personal friend would have no impact on the admission process (assuming the student is within the “acceptable” range stats wise)?</p>
<p>I hope that the percentage of students admitted due to these connections is small - but to deny it or even suggest that schools look harshly on these types of recs. is to deny the truth (there may be a new building or research grant in it for the school).</p>