How many recommendation letters can I send?

Hunt
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:45:31 +0000

Above all else, Yale is an academic institution. Unless your additional recommendation is from someone who knows how you perform in the classroom, an additional letter could work against you by watering down your (otherwise) stellar teacher recs. Sometimes ‘less’ is ‘more’!

I don’t really agree with this. I think a supplemental recommendation is probably best if it highlights something you do outside the classroom. Of course, it should be stellar, too. As an example, my son’s supplemental rec was from the teacher at a summer program for music composition. I guess you could call that the classroom, in a way, but none of his regular high school teachers would have been able to write it.