I knew a kid who got into MIT. I walked in on him collaborating with his girlfriend to write his own recommendations. Sometimes you have to make your own luck I guess. Funny because his girlfriend absolutely deserved to get accepted into MIT, I don't think she took this path, but it kind of let me down that she was involved in this.
Fun fact, this is how it often works in academia. By request, many recommendation letters are given as drafts to the people 'writing' them by those whom they are written about (unless he was writing them as someone without their permission, which would definitely be bad).
