<p>My best friend of 10+ years is now at Stanford. We've done many school stuff together, including one club we founded together of which he was prez and I was vp. He knows me the best, and he thinks as highly of me as I do him. He's also an amazing writer. He's at stanford though. Would it hurt if I got him to write my dartmouth peer rec?</p>
<p>Why would it hurt? Do they expect all your friends to go to Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Lol makes no difference.</p>
<p>so I should not avoid making it known? I was thinking of not writing stanford university on the return address when i was preparing the envelope for my friend. =/</p>
<p>You don't have to put Stanford as his return address. How about his home address?</p>
<p>what POSSIBLE harm would there be if the school saw that this was from a person at Stanford></p>
<p>what are you afraid of></p>
<p>I can think of lots of reasons, maybe this this person is afraid that Dartmouth does not think this is a peer. Maybe it could be a boyfriend? Why can't this person find another person of the same age group? Does this person not able to get along with somebody his/her own age. I'm sure I can get my cousin to write one and pretend it was my peer.</p>
<p>You are over-thinking this bigtime. It will make zero difference.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it...</p>
<p>Because in the actual recommendation, gee, the relationship is explained, it is a PEER recommendation after all- this person IS almost the same age, maybe a year or two apart</p>
<p>what do you think PEER means, btw</p>
<p>Dear Dartmouth- I have know so and so for ten years. We went to school together and worked on many programs.</p>
<p>So and so is .....</p>
<p>99cents- the idea of a PEER recommdation is that it is someone in your arena who knows you well...</p>
<p>Did you not read the OP? they were in school together, and my reading is that the OP is a senior, and the peer is a freshman (or maybe inthe second year) at Stanford</p>
<p>"My best friend of 10+ years is now at Stanford. We've done many school stuff together, including one club we founded together of which he was prez and I was vp"</p>
<p>I don't know if Dartmouth is the same as Williams, but Williams specifically mentions that a sibling or relative is just fine, and that is a lot more 'questionable' than a friend at Stanford. Peer means someone you are at the same level as you, so a friend or something like that rather than a parent or some other superior.</p>
<p>There is no negative, it sounds like a great rec to be.</p>
<p>You are worrying for no reason.</p>
<p>I don't think it matters at all. If anything it show that even with all the good stuff your friend says about Stanford you still want to go to Darmouth. don't over think it. It should fine.</p>
<p>okay then.</p>
<p>for those wondering why he's already at stanford and i'm not in college, let me explain. we're the same age, have been classmates for about 8 years in 3 different schools (which is really cool). he got a government scholarship and I didn't, and that scholarship allows him to disrupt his conscription to begin his studies immediately. i'm still serving in the military, and i have to wait two years, and in the meantime i'm applying for college.</p>
<p>and well he can't put his home address his home address is in singapore. he's currently an international at stanford, he lives only at his stanford dorm. so I guess it won't hurt at all if I wrote stanford university in his return address yep</p>
<p>CGM, I was listing a few reasons why OP might be afraid of.</p>