One school info session we attended highlighted that students shouldn’t automatically ask for LORs from the teachers whose classes they’ve done best in. They emphasized that a LOR from a teacher whose class the student has struggled in, and where they teacher can write about things like determination/ grit/ability to rebound, etc, can be among the most impressive type of LOR they get.
@VickiSoCal , it seems to be a trend that people think the more they get the better. I was a bit worried seeing all the applicants on CC do extra than the one teacher one D19 got (school required one teacher and one GC), but she got in and many others with 3 or more didn’t… One of the info sessions we attended actually said (paraphrased) “ we ask for one, don’t send more than two. It wastes time for AOs who have to read them if they’re in there, it’s highly unlikely that the third and more will say anything substantive that the first one or two haven’t, and the more you ask for the more the chance that someone says something that casts a negative light - your first one or two choices will usually be best recommenders”.