<p>it's required, yes?</p>
<p>I have plenty of friends who would do it, but everyone is way too busy with their own college applications, I would totally feel bad asking. if someone asked me, I would tell them that I have to finish my own apps first. UGH</p>
<p>Ask a friend who’s already in college?He/She should be finishing up the finals…Well,I did that.</p>
<p>I asked a friend who’s already in college because I was having the same problem.</p>
<p>my friends in college dont know me as well as my friends who are high school seniors</p>
<p>find a friend who is also applying to Dartmouth, and just get each other to do the peer recs. That way it doesn’t really unnecessarily burden either party (assuming both want to get into Dartmouth), and you get the peer rec done. Remember that it is a fairly minor part, and is only really significant if it has particularly bad/alarming stuff mentioned…</p>
<p>^sabotage possibilities? plus idk anyone whos applying to dartmouth</p>
<p>siblings, maybe?</p>
<p>i asked a junior</p>
<p>my brother is 11, which would be cute maybe, but not the best writing. and idk if that’s considered a “peer”</p>
<p>I don’t think an 11 year old is your peer.</p>
<p>hahaha get your brother to do it…or write it yourself pretending to be someone else</p>
<p>^hahahah thats awful!</p>
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<p>If you feel so strongly about it, apply to a different college.</p>
<p>find someone who has applied ed and gotten in, thats what I did and dartmouth already sent confirmation that they got it =]</p>
<p>When I was in high school, my best friend asked me to write his peer recommendation for early decision to Dartmouth. It was clearly his first choice and I had absolutely no problem taking ten or fifteen minutes to evaluate him. It seriously does not take a significant portion of someone’s time and if they are your friend, then it shouldn’t be much of a problem. Don’t be afraid to ask your best friend or two.</p>
<p>Write it FOR them, basically. Then all they have to do is read/edit/finish/polich and sign. I agree a peer evaluation is…huh? So I would have NO qualms doing this. I think they’d like your help. Some teachers have their students write their own recommendations. Now…what they DO with these when they rewrite them is another story. They might use NONE of it. But it takes so much burden off the writer. And you at least get to SHOW what you hope they’ll say. I did this when I had to ask a friend to write a letter showing that they’re aware my D has no “non-custodial parent” to fill out the CSS form. It was taking this friend so long, and I needed to send it. So I just said “I feel bad asking you to do this so I thought it might help if I just showed you what it should be like”. They ended up using my beginning, then going off on their own for the rest of the letter. It’s ALL about getting started. The first sentence(s) is(are) the hardest. So … help him/her out. I think they’d appreciate it. I’m CERTAIN it’s done all the time. They won’t sign it if it’s not what they want to say, they’ll change it, but it just gives them a jump start, ya know? Good luck.</p>
<p>Peer reference is a little different, but not at all ridiculous. It will not make or break an acceptance, but Dartmouth is a small and very social community and if you cannot come up with one contemporary willing to spend 30 minutes writing a few favorable things about you. . . .you are probably not a good fit. 15,000 applicants find an agreeable peer every year- it is really not that difficult.</p>
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<p>That will work. My daughter got her big sister (5 years older) to write hers, and she got accepted.</p>
<p>I just invented my Peer Evaluation and I put a name of a friend! that’s it!!!</p>
<p>^I’m sure that will work out well…not</p>