How much will this recommendation help in the waitlist?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>I'm on the waitlist at Princeton. Assuming they let people in off the waitlist this year, how much will a recommendation from the executor of my estate (basically the guy who controls my inheritance) for the county who is a Princeton grad and his daughter is the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affiars. I'm kinda ****ed, because he said he would write me a recommendation originally when I was applying, and I figured after our one and only meeting that he would write one, but I don't think he did. How much would it have helped if I had done it originally?</p>

<p>As far as stats go, let's just say that academically I'm definitely qualified, and extracurricularly less so.</p>

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<p>Doubt it would help at all, but send it anyway.</p>

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<p>Is he really the executor of your estate, or is he the executor of your father/mother/grandfather's estate (source of your inheritance)? Do you have your own will? A letter from his daughter would have been great; his letter, had it been submitted, is less so, but it can't hurt to add it to the file now, particularly if he can speak to anything notable you might have done that was not covered in the original app.</p>

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<p>Executor of my estate, but I don't have my own will.</p>

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<p>I was told by an inside source at Princeton that new letters of recommendation do nothing, because they're getting a bizillion from all the wait list candidates. Only if the letter was from someone really really important would it even be noticed.</p>

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<p>FRS-
Do you know for sure that he did not write the rec? You should find out. There are times that someone is not comfortable , (maybe he didn't like your attitude ) and made a decision based on that. You certainly would not want a rec from someone who does not have a strong desire to support you.
He may write you a perfectly good rec that speaks volumes by what it doesn't say.</p>

<p>But as someone already said, colleges prefer not to have the letter- campaign at this time..</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure the rec will be fine; he offered to write one when he found out I was on the waitlist, so I'm assuming he liked my attitude, though I don't know if he wrote one originally. Also, to clarify, his daughter is the dean of that school at Princeton.</p>

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<p>his daughter is Anne-Marie Slaughter? no question, send it in. the worst that could happen is that it doesn't affect anything at all.</p>

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<p>Yup, that's her. I wish I had made sure he had sent it in.</p>