<p>Let's say a teacher who graduated from a certain under grad school writes a letter of recommendation for a kid to his alma mater...</p>
<p>will the fact that the author of your lettor of rec. is an alumni of the school help?</p>
<p>i think that it would help at least a little</p>
<p>Yea, I guess it would help. But the teacher would probably have to mention that he/she went there. Don't assume the adcoms would know.</p>
<p>anyone know how much it helps?</p>
<p>it probably would help, but I mean don't count on just because the teacher went there, it's automatically the best recommendation</p>
<p>basically, don't count on it helping if at all</p>
<p>ya it helps someone did that at my school and they got in, not necessarily because of that though</p>
<p>It can help at times, a friend of mine applied to Davidson this year, and she really wanted to go there, she was a legacy and all [her brother was a recent graduate], but then she was waitlisted. However she worked the appeals process like crazy, she submitted twelve letters of appeal from various people including a Davidson graudate [which the dean told her was one of the more valuable letters, she got to buddy buddy with the dean if this makes more sense] and she was then put on as the first waitlisted applicant to be accepted from her region [the NE]. so i guess it can sometimes help.</p>