Value of Recommendations?

KarateDad
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:31:10 +0000

The question that has to be answered before sending additional recs is this; Does this recommendation give any additional perspective to the readers that wasn’t available before. At first glance, we all have a tendency to say they do, but I believe one should use a great deal of scrutiny here. I remember more than once hearing the old quote “the thicker the file, the thicker the student.” While I am sure that as Urban said, it can’t hurt, I doubt very much that most people need more than the requested number of recs.