HELP! Is three recommendation letters from one person too much?!

T26E4
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:57:10 +0000

Borb: While you theoretically are correct (they might like it to be personally addressed), they are fully aware that most rec letters are copied and used for multiple apps. Your post is rather panic mongering, IMHO.

My experience is that application readers genuinely are looking for your best attributes. To be peeved that a LOR isn’t addressed specifically to the college – that’d be the height of unprofessionalism. They aren’t monstrous ■■■■■■ looking to condemn files because the LOR was written on 35 pound weight paper or that the app was folded too many times or was written in blue in rather than black, etc.