How many recommendation letters can I send?

Hunt
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:55:49 +0000

If you send a supplementary rec, it should have something to say about you that’s different from your teacher recs. Both of my kids sent a supplementary rec from a teacher at a summer program that their teachers in school couldn’t have written. You might have somebody you work with at a charity, or doing research, or at a job, and such a person might have something to say about you that your teachers can’t. Note that this is about what the recommender can say about YOU, not about himself. With few exceptions, the fact that your family knows an influential person will not help unless that person can write something specific about YOU.