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Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>would a fantastic letter of recommendation give me that was written by an English teacher I had that got his graduate degree from Columbia?</p>

<p>I mean, obviously things like GPA and test scores would supersede this in importance, but would it give me the slightest boost? Or would the adcom not care at all?</p>

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<p>The Columbia affiliation will almost certainly make no difference. If the guy had been President of the Columbia College Student Council, then maybe. But just a grad random student? Doubt it will have any effect.</p>