absolutely not correct- in fact exactly this happened to me/my son
We applied to a certain yeshiva for kitta tes-and we wanted to find out when my son can come down for a farher..so the menahel says well…I dont know…there really isn’t enogh room…I heard your son is below average…and a lot of other balogna.
well my husband begged for him just to meet him and farher himand he finally agreed.
well did he have surprise!
My son did extremely well and only then did he call his melamed from last year who gave an excellent report about him..
so what happened? we later found out he asked one or two other teenagers who perhaps knew my son…they didnt want him in the yeshiva (for whatever reason) andgave ‘bad’ information about my son and in turn just turned us down without even verifying if any of this was true!
being that was my husband was so insistant he just gave in and lo and behold the kid did very well he then went on to verify what was going on…he was B”H accepted.
I do hope this menahel learnt his lesson not to ask other talmidim aor at least verify his INFORMATION!!!!!!!