<p>I’m doing Wharton RD…</p>
<p>I want to ask how does a Wharton active alum’s recommendation help a candidate? He participates in many of the Wharton forums as a keynote speaker and is a partner of a large private equity firm too. </p>
<p>I worked for the active alum for the last two years, and he wrote a personal recommendation for me.</p>
<p>do you think it will help my candidacy?</p>
<p>If it's personal, yes</p>
<p>i kinda spelt my title wrong. submitted too fast.</p>
<p>if he just wrote about my job performance and how we got to know each other through golf, does that consider personal?</p>
<p>I would have to read the rec to be 100% sure</p>
<p>I sort of have a similar question--</p>
<p>A Penn dental school alum has known me since I was born... She was V-P of her student body when she went to Penn, and she sent Penn a rec about me, saying how she's known me forever, talking about my qualities, etc etc. (I applied ED)</p>
<p>Would this help / hurt / neither ... ?</p>
<p>let us know if it helped in.... 95 hrs. k?</p>
<p>Ahaha, paro, you're my hero</p>
<p>he talked about his active role in the wharton community, then about my job performance, and then about my personal characters...</p>
<p>of courese, i can't expose his name...sorry!</p>
<p>no offense, but dont ask these stupid kinds of questions. wait 4 days and ull have the ultimate answer</p>
<p>Chill, I'm just looking for some consolation here. I'm totally freaking out and expecting a deferral.</p>
<p>i said i'm doing WHARTON RD!!!</p>
<p>ah with<em>one</em>voice, finally someone who realizes my true value =) feel free to start my fan club or make t-shirts or whatev.</p>
<p>thats the point kiki.</p>
<p>us EDer's dont want to see those posts..</p>
<p>wait a few days.</p>
<p>after decisions come out people will be much more amiable.... until then, **** off</p>
<p>Unless his name is Huntsman I would say it will make very little difference. Can't hurt, but probably wouldn't even amount to a "tipping factor." Wife and I wrote twice: Once, he got in, the other kid didn't. The kid who got in was getting in anyway. Great kid, knew him since he was 5 yrs old and we were thrilled to write for him, but he had good stats, was URM and recruited athlete so I figured he was in anyway. The other was a very high stat kid, legacy, also knew him since age 5, and we only wrote after he was deferred ED. Turned out he probably didn't really truly want to go to Penn and it showed through in his essays. He is very happy somewhere else.</p>