I am a senior and applied EA to my colleges. After meeting with my counselor I decided to ask a junior year teacher to write a LOR. I did well in her class and had a relationship with her around a sport that she coached. At the time I asked her to write a letter, I was trying out for the team.
She agreed to write one, wrote the letter and a week later cut me from the team.
As the months have gone on, I no longer think she had an exceptional opinion of me. I honestly think I misread things. I am much closer with my senior year teachers. I am guessing she wrote a mediocre letter.
I am almost 100 percent sure my other recommender wrote a great one though as she essentially told me she was.
With good grades, good test scores, and solid essays, how much will an average second LOR affect me?
It depends on what was in the letter (anything negative or just blah?), the selectivity of the colleges you applied to, and how important LORs are in admission decisions for those schools, and even how outstanding you are in other areas.
If you have solid match and likely schools, you’re probably okay.
Good points. There will not be anything negative. Mainly just possibly blah. I definitely showed motivation, work ethic and integrity. I just don’t think I stood out in any great way.
Yes, I agree being cut from a team has zero to to with how the LOR would be. In addition you would not have known your senior year teachers well enough to ask them to write a letter by the EA dates. This is a crazy process filled with twists and turns. Don’t make things more difficult by second guessing well thought out choices you made during the process.