My counselor is sending a letter to admissions office regarding my app?

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<p>I am sorry for spamming different forums with the same thread, but this is really important to me.</p>

<p>So, I am an international student and my school has never send any kids to a US college for undergrad. infact, i am amongst the only 3 people in a class of 250+ who is applying to colleges in US. However, i belong to a country which is literally "feeding" students to the ivies and other top institutes. </p>

<p>My counselor, whom i have known since i joined the school, really wants me to get into one of top unis in States(obviously, who wouldnt) and my application as a whole looks great as well. only one major drawback? i have a 26 (27 Super-scoring, if they do that) in the ACTs, but fairly decent Subject test scores (790 in one of 'em). i have good essays (reviewed and critiqued by present college students and many others), in the top 2% of the class, gooooood EC records, great LORs, etc.
BUT THAT ACT SCORE!
so i told my counselor, who is like friend to me, about this score and that shall crumble my entire app since that score isnt even in the lower 25% of the scores that the college class of 2016 had (of top unis); source- college profiles. infact, i read, that top 20 colleges in US had just 1% applicants with a score below 28 (ACT) and i told this to my counselor. </p>

<p>He has already sent a recommendation letter as a counselor, however, today he told me that he will be emailing the colleges and request them to have a careful look at my application?
obviously colleges do their best job possible and sometime tend to overlook one bad score and that counselor sending a letter to the adcoms shall not make a difference but only annoy them more. My counselor, however, really wants to send this letter to request them to have a scrupulous look at my application and tell them that i am amongst the best students the school has every produced and bla-bla, stuff like that, which, i think, he has already sent in the LOR. he said, he will also be adding stuff like saying that standardized testing don't really portray myself as a proper candidate, but my grades and my ECs show that i am a good candidate for their college and more such stuff on similar lines?! I am pretty sure he'll definitely send that, even if i request him not to?!</p>

<p>so, the question is, will the adcoms read such email and pay heed to it? or will it annoy them? will it make them skip that one terrible part of my app or like, have a proper look at my app as whole? or make ANY difference? will that letter/email matter much?
or should i ask my counselor to not send it and somehow convince him that it'll only decrease my chances? or just let him send anyway? :X</p>

<p>[edit: dont be like, oh they'll overlook that score. well, coz they wont!. just please suggest?]</p>

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<p>The only problem with sending emails like that is that every guidance counselor thinks that their students is the best and “should” get into any college they want, but in reality some people are going to get in and others aren’t. It might not hurt to send an email, but remember that admissions have a holistic approach and do not cut-offs for act/sat scores. If you have other things going for you then I wouldn’t worry about it. The only problem is that its mid-February; your application may have already been decided on. It may be too late for another letter from your guidance counselor.</p>

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<p>Don’t think it will help much and don’t think it will hurt at all.</p>

<p>Unless he knows something about you that will give them cause to ignore your ACT score relative to others, it probably won’t do the trick. </p>

<p>But you never know…</p>

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<p>Your GC should know: it’s a done deal. The deadline has passed, he has had the opportunity to comment on the SSR, he should know better than to be sending unsolicited supplementary materials. And this:</p>

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<p>is both naive and condescending at the same time. These are Adcoms, scrupulously looking at applications is their job.</p>

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<p>i totally agree, @entomom. </p>

<p>thank you for your responses, everyone. </p>

<p>there’s only so much i can do.</p>