what is YALE looking for

prepre
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:50:01 +0000

I think a high SAT score gets you up there ( boo for me) but I think essays are most important… it would suck if they put a lot of weight on teacher recommendations because for example, I thought my AP lang teacher form last year would write me an amazing one…NOPE. I saw it later for another school; it was the crappiest, most generic thing I had ever seen, he did that for everyone. Which seems kind of unfair on the part of all the students who were counting on great recommendations.

I don’t think this should be taken out on the student. Sorry about this rant, but I’m just frustrated about this and want to know, like the OP, if this is a very important factor?