<p>I wanted to know whether or not I should submit an additional teacher recommendation letter if the additional one is not “stellar”. I go to a huge high school so my counselor doesn’t even know who I am. So, she told me that JHU allows an additional teacher recommendation in the lieu of the counselor recommendation. I’m afraid that the teacher I am asking wouldn’t write me as great of a recommendation letter as the other teacher, and I think it would be redundant. What should I do?</p>
<p>wait, what?</p>
<p>so you’re saying right now you have 1 rec from a teacher that’s…okay, and 1 from a counselor that isn’t so great. and you’re asking if you should submit a third one that is not-so great?</p>
<p>are there any other people that could vouch for you? not necessarily a teacher or counselor but maybe someone you’ve worked with or something? if you can, someone who can describe your outstanding character with good details could help quite a bit.</p>
<p>The “original” teacher recommendation is stellar, no doubt about that, but my counselor will simply say, “because of the high student to counselor ratio at our school, I do not have any basis in recommending/deferring this student. please see other teacher recommendation”. So, my counselor told me that JHU will accept an additional teacher recommendation in lieu of the hopeless counselor’s letter. However, since I moved schools, and JHU wants recommendation letters(academic) from junior year teachers, I only have 1 teacher that knows me well enough, but I don’t really trust her. She’s a little hard to predict, and I don’t think she’ll be able to write as stellar of a recommendation letter as my other teacher. Also, I know it’s going to be redundant. In response to your question about whether or not I’m sending one from my extracurricular advisor: yes, I already got the letter to the person and she sent it in. What should I do about the counselor/additional teacher recommendation though? Should one teacher and one outside source be good enough? Thanks. :)</p>
<p>Whoa… where does it say that our teacher recs have to come from junior year teachers… I’ve been trying to get in sweet with all my senior year teachers so that I could use them…</p>
<p>i believe i used a rec from a teacher i had during sophomore year. </p>
<p>my recommendation is, whatever super decent recs you can get your hands on, send them all in. just don’t send a hell of a lot of recs because then that’d just look ridiculous. also, there’s no guarantee that the extra recs you sent in will be read, i think.</p>
<p>How many rec’s can you send, anyway? Like, how many from school teachers and how many from ec coordinators and science center/institute professors who helped you with research? Is it limited?
Hope it’s not… :)</p>
<p>There is a lot of confusion on this thread about Hopkins’ letter of recommendation policy – let me try to clear up some of the issues.</p>
<p>(1) Hopkins requires two letters of recommendation. One must be from your guidance or college counselor. The other must be from a teacher.</p>
<p>(2) Hopkins does accept additional letters of recommendation from any source, but request that an applicant not submit any more than a total of 4 letters.</p>
<p>(3) In cases where a student’s relationship is not strong with their guidance counselor, they would be encouraged to submit additional letters of recommendation from teachers or other school administrators. However, the counselor letter is still REQUIRED. “axelson” I am not sure where your counselor got her information, but JHU does require counselor recommendations even in cases where their is little knowledge of the applicant. </p>
<p>(4) In selecting your teacher recommendation, the adcoms strongly encourage that the teacher be a junior or senior year teacher. If selecting a freshman or sophomore year teacher, it should only be an additional letter of recommendation.</p>
<p>(5) If you choose to submit the additional 2 letters of rec. they can be from additional teachers, extracurricular advisors, coaches, bosses, college professors, etc. - anyone you want except friends and parents.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>