<p>Is it frowned upon to send in 2 teacher recommendations if the school only asks for 1? The teacher who knows me best is my music teacher because I take his class every year and am involved in many music extra-curriculars, but I do not want to study music in college so I'd really rather send in 2 applications: one from my music teacher, and one from my English teacher. My English teacher knows me alright, but was only my teacher for 1 year as opposed to 3 years.</p>
<p>id like to know this too..ive heard it cant hurt as long as u dont send it sooo many</p>
<p>You have to send in the English one, since that would be an academic teacher. You can only send the music rec as a supplement, sorry to break the news. It's alright to send another rec than asked for, but be sure to mark it as SUPPLEMENT.</p>
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<p>so don't send in too many. 1 or 2 above the required will suffice.</p>
<p>american univ. told us they had one with i believe 83. They never did tell us if he was accepted or not ahaha. You gotta wonder though, if a person needs 83 people to tell the adcom hes a decent applicant...hes trying to hide something ahaha</p>
<p>I had the same question. I was visiting Williams the other day and asked the admission officer. Pole vault is a major ec of mine, and my pole vault coach knows me very well and I was wondering if I could send a recommendation from him. The officer said that if I think it would add to my application in an important way then, yes. She also gave the example of a high school newspaper editor. If you send in 3 copies of the paper, she's not going to read them, she'll just flip them over and keep going through the application. If you send one editorial you wrote, she'll probably read that.</p>
<p>what about a newspaper article? Like my essay is about a 911 job i went on with a fatal car accident. The newspaper article describes the accident and just mentions my agency in a sentence, but i think it shows im not making it up. Idk if its worth me putting it in though? What do you think.</p>
<p>Also, i have ALOT of community service hours (2000) Like idk i feel some adcoms wont believe its legit, so i want to send in a letter from my ambulance corps. captain. Good idea?</p>
<p>Now in regards to both questions. Im applying online. So should i send this stuff via mail. How would i handle this?</p>
<p>I don't know about the newspaper article. I don't think it will hurt to send it, and if it has to do directly with your essay, then it might be worth it to send it in with a note saying how it is the incident from the your essay. On the other hand, does the article in any way enhance an admin's opinion of you? Does it make your experience more dramatic and cool? or does it seem like a story that briefly mentions your company? It's your call, but only add it if you think it makes you look better. </p>
<p>Definately send along the letter from your officer. Make it a reccomendation, not just a verification of hours. If you do that much work for them then they should know you pretty well. </p>
<p>I think you can just send any mail to an admissions office with your name on it and they add it to your file. Just make sure to add a letter with the packet explaining that it's supplamentary info for your file. Later on you can call the office and check to see if they got it.</p>