how many is too many? supplementals

NavyBlueNinja
Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:13:19 +0000

I’ll be blatantly honest: the ADCOM doesn’t really care too much. The more recommendations you send, the less time and effort they’ll put into reading them; they will not read deeply and analyze every single recommendation, especially if there are a lot of them. In the case of the person who sends 6 recommendations from various teachers that all basically say the same thing, sending a lot of recommendations would be a turn-off to the admissions officers. However, I think that in your case, the recommendations all discuss different important parts of your application and make your application a better application. If you had to pick only one of those two supplemental recommendations to send, I would send the debate team recommendation, but I think that you could send both and have it be beneficial to your application.