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Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD
I am less than impressed by her essays.
Her recommendation letters are standard form letters, its what I write kids when I don't have anything bad to say but don't have anything great about them either.
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total hijack:
I'd like to read one of your great letters. Recommendations are really hard to do well, I think, especially about the all around good kid with no special adversity to overcome.
And it's kind of a funny area when you think about it. If they are used for anything other than kind of checking off that someone sent a positive one without any red flags, on some level, aren't schools rewarding or penalizing applicants based on the skills and time commitment of the folks writing their recommendations? Wouldn't that almost automatically disadvantage kids from big public schools with high teaching loads and further privileged kids from elite private schools?
I always try to do a good job and even try to sell the kid as much as possible. (I'd decline to write one before I'd write a bad one.) But high school recommendations to college are a funny thing.
Sort of on point: maybe she's using the website to further sell herself to Notre Dame for admission. Look how much I love the school; please let me in.
I don't have a big problem with the page. I agree that it's tacky to basically panhandle to strangers to fund your education, but if it works, great for her. If it proves to be trend based on a generational sense of entitlement, people will probably stop giving. Problem solved.