<p>I apparently have the worst luck...</p>
<p>3 out of the 4 Privates I applied to lost my stuff:</p>
<p>Yale: **Lost BOTH Teacher Recs
**Princeton: Lost BOTH Teacher Recs AND my Transcript
Stanford: **Lost ONE of my Teacher Recs
**Amherst: Didint lose anything thank god :)</p>
<p>Anyways... I re-mailed and faxed everything, and Yale lost it all AGAIN. Luckily tho, they called my school to tell us, and said they needed a Rec in a few hours to make their decision. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, none of my teachers had their Recs with them. Instead, one of my teachers found an old recommendation she did last year for me last year for an Internship... it was hardly similar to her College Rec. But, with no other option, we sent that anyways.</p>
<p>And, I got accepted. So, Yale made their decisions with no real Recs, just a ghetto, hardly-relavent letter from last year.</p>
<p>Conclusion: I think colleges exaggerate how important Recs are... After all, im sure 90% of the Teacher Recs they recieve all say nearly the same thing.</p>
<p>P.S: Princeton and Stanford never called so I still have no idea if they ever received my stuff heh.</p>