<p>I applied EDII to Carnegie Mellon and- until today- thought everything was sent in fine. I was contacted by the office of admissions of another college where I applied RD and they informed me that the "Evaluation" section on my secondary school report was left blank by my counselor. I'm not entirely sure why my counselor would do this, but that isn't a problem for the RD school, I'll just resend it. The problem is that I am pretty sure my that the RD secondary school report was just a copied version of the one sent to CMU (I addressed the envelope, but my counselor didn't let me see the report). So I guess my question is: how heavily will this affect my decision? Do they weight the secondary school report heavily?</p>
<p>I have the "blank line" as of January 10th, so is it too late to change anything? Should I contact the office of admissions?</p>
<p>I’d contact admissions to ask, just in case. However, the counselor letter is not really weighed that heavily. For one, it is mandatory - meaning you don’t get to pick who writes it, like you do with teacher recs (which say a lot about your style and personality). </p>
<p>In perspective: my counselor was in charge of 900 students. She didn’t know my name or who I was, despite the fact that I saw her at least once a week to discuss classes. She asked me to write my own counselor recommendation and then she signed off on it and it was sent to CMU. This is an extremely common practice at larger high schools, and admissions is aware of it.</p>
<p>Don’t be too worried. What the counselor does is out of your hands as a student. It won’t count against you.</p>
<p>Yeah, I met my counselor for the first time when I asked them to write my recommendation. The GC positions at my high school were a revolving door, and I had four different ones in four different years. I didn’t get to see all of my recommendation, but I saw she had pre-written it and it was sitting on her desk when I walked in. It started with, “I don’t know ____, but he is taking a lot of difficult classes.”</p>