mirandastern

This has probably been asked more times than I can even imagine, so pardon the cliché.

I plan to apply to quite a few schools (yes, I know the danger in this, no need to tell me). I was wondering if, when having teachers write my letter of reccomendation, I give them multiple addressed envelopes. About how many teachers should I ask? I know schools typically only ask for two, but I don't want to have to give the same two teacher that many envelopes?

Thanks!

entomom

If you're using the CA, most will apply electronically rather than via snail mail.

I'll give you one more reason not to use the shot gun approach to applications: if you're asking several teachers for LORs rather than the 2 that will write you the best ones, you're reducing the efficacy of your application. The same thing happens to your essays. A concise, well thought out list of about 10 schools will yield better final results.

rw2013

It's different for every school, but at my high school we're told to ask our teachers for our letters and give them a manila envelope to put one hard copy in. We then give that hard copy to our guidance counselor. Our GC makes copies of that letter and sends it in with the school report whenever he sends that, so we don't have to worry about how many copies we need or how many envelopes we should send.

mirandastern

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not applying to an insane amount of schools. I will most likely apply to about 9 to 12 colleges. I just want to keep my options open. I was really just wondering how the whole reccomendation process works.

I'm not sure if my school does that, I'll have to check it out. Hopefully it does, it sounds a lot easier!

entomom

It's not a problem to ask the same 2 teachers to send LORs for 9-12 schools, that's pretty normal around here. When you said 'quite a few', I thought you were thinking more like 20, which unfortunately some people do.