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"If you can't wait to receive a letter in the mail, one can check your's admissions results by calling this number".

When you use "you" and "one" in the same sentence, you are referring to two different people. In the context of the above sentence, the meaning would not make sense. The pronouns need to refer to the same person. The person who is not willing to wait for the letter in the mail will be the same person making the telephone call.
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let's take this sentence for example:

"If you can't wait to receive a letter in the mail, one can check ones's admissions results by calling this number". I know this sentence is grammatically incorrect because the pronoun "one" cannot be used interchangeably with other pronouns when referring to the same thing. But let's assume that the sentence state as follows: "If you can't wait to receive a letter in the mail, one can check your's admissions results by calling this number". It was correct?
Though it is one of the rarely tested concepts in GMAT, the best practice would be to use ether personal pronouns - he, she, him, and so on, or impersonal pronoun - it, they, and one I am not sure whether there are more or not..
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