<p>I have a teacher who's alma mater is Cornell. He was my primary recomendation and mentioned something about how he could imagine me being in Ithaca and how he knew that I would bring much to the community and so forth. How much emphasis do you think that they put on recomendations? Does it help that my teacher went to Cornell?</p>
<p>Really, I'm not sure. I'm not sure it'll make/break your decision, but hey, it can't hurt, unless that's all he talks about instead of say heaping loads of praise on you...</p>
<p>That's a good thing. Recommendations are important, but don't make up for low quantitative statistics.</p>
<p>yeah, one of my recommendations was a teacher who was a Cornell alumna</p>