<p>should i bother sending them out when i apply?</p>
<p>i ask this because usually big public schools don't read them</p>
<p>I'd send good recommendations. Pitt has become more competitive, so anything that will help you, I'd send in.</p>
<p>It DEFINATELY helps. I wrote a reccomendation for someone who interned for us last year, and the Dean of Admissions at Pitt personally wrote me to thank me for the reccomendation and said that they appreciate it when people add a personal touch to their application.</p>
<p>They definitely didnt bother reading mine. The East Coast admissions rep. didnt seem to give a damn either. meh.</p>
<p>Colleges consider each application "holistically." A demanding course load/high gpa & rank/ good scores - as well as the ec's and recommendations all help.</p>
<p>Oh, loslobos, we've been through this before. Your numbers just weren't good enough, and they look at numbers first.</p>
<p>It might help to take the ACT and see if you do better on them than the SAT. The ACT is scored differently.</p>
<p>I didnt send any letters of rec and im out of state, which makes it harder to get accepted.. If your grades are high enough, you should be fine without it. I did write an essay though.</p>
<p>Yes, send! I got two awesome letters of reccomendations from two of my high school teachers and Pitt actually sent thank-you poems to those teachers who sent the letters.</p>
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<p>Putting you on ignore might be the single smartest thing i'd ever do.</p>