<p>If I mail out an additional rec does it have to be at Yale by the 31st or is it a postmarked date for things mailed in? </p>
<p>And what about at other Ivys? (I also want to send an addition rec to Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, and Columbia)</p>
<p>Thanks, this forum gets a lot of traffic so that's why I'm posting on here. I hope you future and current Bulldogs can help me out!</p>
<p>Sometime during January is fine for Yale, Darthmouth, and Brown</p>
<p>Harvard and Columbia especially do not take kindly to extra letters of recommendation, but if you send one, make sure its by Jan 1.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it’s postmark date. I mailed all of my additional recs today.</p>
<p>Harvard and Columbia don’t even want extra letters? Am I understanding this correctly?</p>
<p>Also, what would be the consequence of sending it by the 10th or so? Thanks.</p>
<p>Jan 10th would be fine. Yes, Harvard and Columbia don’t want extra recs. And sending them would hurt.</p>
<p>Yale specifically asks for no additional recs, especially since they often just mimic what other recs state. However, they won’t turn them away and a single additional rec won’t hurt your chances. They do ask that if you send a supplemental, that the contents actually present NEW info not contained in the two teacher recs. Another note saying how hardworking you are and what good character you have is worthless to Yale.</p>
<p>As to the postmark/date rec’d question – there’s plenty of leeway. It’s not as if something that comes in on Jan 15 will go into the shredder, you know.</p>
<p>I found this on Harvard’s site:</p>
<p>Should students send supplementary recommendations?</p>
<p>While we can make careful evaluations with required recommendations, we are happy to read helpful letters from people directly familiar with applicants’ lives outside the classroom. Such letters are not necessary, however, and it is generally advisable to submit no more than two or three.</p>
<p>(I was going to submit one from my baseball coach since grade 7)</p>
<p>And Yale’s site:</p>
<p><a href=“Applying to Yale as an International Student | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions”>Applying to Yale as an International Student | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions;
<p>It seems like Yale is the one that doesn’t really want an additional rec, while Harvard is fine with it. This seems to contradict what Mentos (who is a knowledgeable CC’er) said, so I’m confused.</p>
<p>Columbia:
<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/may-i-submit-supplementary-recommendations[/url]”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/faq/may-i-submit-supplementary-recommendations</a></p>
<p>It’s very obvious that they don’t want one unless you have done research with a mentor and/or taken college level courses.</p>
<p>Brown:
<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University;
<p>Seems to be fine with it ONLY if this person knows you in a way that the teachers and GC don’t.</p>
<p>Dartmouth:
[Dartmouth</a> Admissions Uncommonly Asked Questions: Can I and should I submit additional letters of recommendation, beyond the required 2 teacher recs, peer eval, and counselor rec?](<a href=“http://dartmouthquestions.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-i-and-should-i-submit-additional.html]Dartmouth”>Dartmouth Admissions Uncommonly Asked Questions: Can I and should I submit additional letters of recommendation, beyond the required 2 teacher recs, peer eval, and counselor rec?)</p>
<p>Same as Brown</p>
<p>So, is this not the true story? Mentos has said that Harvard doesn’t want them but it says that they are happy to read them. What’s true in this situation? (Same with the Yale situation)</p>
<p>The general rule, of course, is that you should only send additional letters of rec if they present substantial new information. That applies to every school. In answering your question, I’m assuming that your baseball coach has some new perspective i.e hard work and diligence on the field, extraordinary talent, etc.</p>
<p>Among the Ivy’s, only Penn AOs state publicly that they’ll only read 2 recs + SSR counselor rec. So, if you submit a supplemental there, it might be at the top of the pile, and some vital info from a teacher might be left out. This comes directly from a conversation I had at a conference. So, for Penn, probably don’t submit.</p>
<p>At most other schools, supplementals are skimmed to see if they have new info, and neither helps nor hurts, unless you count the time that is not spent carefully reviewing the other parts of your app. At Harvard and Columbia, the average rec hurts your app marginally.</p>