<p>I was deferred under ED and plan on sending another reccomendation as well as some other materials to strengthen my case. I’d like some advice on whom to ask for the recc. My options are:</p>
<p>a) My aunt (keep reading). She is a professor and department head at the Peabody School at Vanderbilt. She would in no way try to hide our relation and wants to make the case that she has tried to convince me to apply to Vandy countless times, but that UVa will always be my first choice. Should family members never write reccs, even under these circumstances?</p>
<p>b) My Spanish teacher from freshman year/club advisor. Because she taught me when I was in 9th grade and I already have a recc. from a Spanish teacher, this would focus more on my work for the tutoring club I founded with her help. She probably knows me better than any other teacher.</p>
<p>c) My Advanced Dance teacher. I don’t take dance outside of school anymore, but I do take the class in school and participate in school dance recitals (dancing and choreographing). The teacher knows me fairly well, and I am one of her favorite pupils. I feel like this would give the adcoms a new dimension to my personality…but will it matter if I’m not a hardcore modern dancer?</p>
<p>C
Don’t do A- kiss of death.
Don’t do B- no one cares about a teacher you had in 9th grade and you already have a Spanish rec.
Too many extra recs will look desperate.</p>
<p>buddy - just go ahead and send all 3. Honestly, none of the people above know what they’re talking about, they all act like they’re admissions officers. I was defferred and then ultimately accepted - all I did was send in a bunch of crap after I defferred. Also, if your stats look like you should have been a shoe in - then have your mom or dad (whoever is more into the college thing) call the admissions office and *****. </p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I think I’m going to go with untilted and jags here. I see where a few of you are coming from with the thing about A, but I don’t think admissions will hold it against me if I send it. If they don’t think my aunt is a reliable source then they will just disregard the letter; I doubt I’ll be penalized.</p>
<p>WELL I’m not gonna lie thrills - i’m kinda wasted at the moment, so take this all with a grain of salt. HOWEVER to get into uva from a deferral it helps to A) have uber interested parents who are willing to call admissions a bagillion times. B) have stats that shouldn’t have been deferred. (I was OOS and had a 1510 (800 math, 710 verb) on my SATs, and a 5.023 GPA in highschool. We got 5.0 for an A in an honors or AP class and a 4.0 for an A in a regular class. A+ in honors/ap gave us 5.2s…I was in a 2 way tie for 1/180) C) my dad got a US senator to write me a letter…MAYBE THAT HELPED. But onto the stuff I did personally. I had known that UVA was building their music department up hardcore, and I had scored some music for my highschool band and sent that in, I had a couple of recomendations sent in, and a godly recomendation sent in by my band director - even though i didn’t really plan on continuing to do music in college. So my best advice for the deferries…if you have something that uva is looking for - even if you don’t plan on pursuing it in college…just stress it hardcore in your supliments. Getting into college isn’t all about stats, its about fitting into the right mold that the school is looking for. If you can find a program UVa is trying to develop and you do it in highschool hell yea stress it. Just remember, the more crap you send in, the more the UVa thinks you’re interested. Unless you committed some sort of felony or murder, they arn’t going to be turned off by additional information. </p>
<p>I paint as a hobby, but the arts supplement package deadline had just passed. So is it too late for me to send them stuff (I’m a deferred ED candidate) to help improve my case for reg. decision?</p>