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For addition letters of rec, how great do they have to be? My Psych/history/ec coach (but just for 1/2 year) wrote me one that's about 1 page single spaced. It's really not very long. Although it restates some stuff on my AL, it's overall a pretty good rec I thought. Will this hurt my chances if it's not an reallly really good letter?

By Morgantruce (Morgantruce) on Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 11:11 pm: Edit

What are YOU doing with the letter? You are supposed to ask someone to write a letter of recommendation and mail it directly to a list of colleges you supply them.

Colleges do not want you mailing in a letter someone else wrote. If you do that, I think you you will certainly hurt your chances----big time!

If the college even suspects that the letter was "run by you" before being sent in... that is not good.

By Emilyp114 (Emilyp114) on Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 11:17 pm: Edit

Morgantruce, that isn't always true. My school always gives the recs to the student, unless specifically requested to do otherwise. I know with NYU, they prefer that everything come at once, and not dribble in a piece at a time. It matters not a bit whether the student mails the recs or not. Why would it hurt your chances if you know what a teacher writes about you?

By Tennizpro06 (Tennizpro06) on Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 01:08 am: Edit

morgan-
1st, this is a supplemental letter. there is no waive thing i can sign to start off with. secondly, i had this teacher write a rec for one school that required 3 recs and i waived that one, but he showed me anyways. in fact, for every teacher i've asked so far, i've waived to, and they've all shown me it without my asking anyways.