<p>Will it help if I got rec letters from all the teachers since freshman year?</p>
<p>yeah, I know it’s a lame question, thought of it while i was browsing here.</p>
<p>But it might help?</p>
<p>I’m gonna go with a no. </p>
<p>Colleges have enough letters and other crap to read. They probably won’t even read more than three (if they even do that)</p>
<p>I don’t think colleges need a complete history of what your teachers thought of you.</p>
<p>Remember that each admissions counselor reads hundreds, maybe more than one thousand, aplications each season. They promise to read everything you submit. They are human, and it can get very irritating when an applicant sends in too much stuff. There’s a famous story about one applicant, I believe at Harvard, who sent in 50 letters of recommendation! IMO you should submit what’s required, and then one or two other letters, at most, from people who will add a perspective DIFFERENT than another teacher’s. For example, my S submitted a letter from a piano teacher who had worked with him for nine years.</p>
<p>From the inimitable Bryan Nance, [here](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/ive_got_99_problems_admissions.shtml]here[/url]:”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_freshman_application/ive_got_99_problems_admissions.shtml):</a>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>and Bryan Nance is hilarious.</p>
<p>Hahaha, wow.</p>
<p>“Admission to MIT is like wearing spandex in public - it’s a privilege not a right.”</p>
<p>Very entertaining.</p>