crap! Rec letter issue

Applying to College
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<p>So I'll send 4 rec letters to each college. Two are my chem teacher and english teacher from last year, one is a mentor at Harvard, and the fourth is one of two:</p>

<p>A university Professor who's letter talks about how I always went above and beyond in his class, and surpassed college juniors and seniors.
OR
My 10th grade physics teacher, who says I would come across "like a God" in a rec letter from him.</p>

<p>The problem is I just emailed all the addresses to the professor....</p>

<p>Ack help!</p>

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<p>FOUR RECS?! No!!</p>

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<p>...what?</p>

<p>RSI says to use four if you have that many...</p>

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<p>seems really excessive</p>

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<p>lol well that's how many I'm probably going to use. Any advice on what to do now though?</p>

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<p>Wouldn't it be five? A guidance couneslor writes a recommendation as well.</p>

<p>I'm submitting 2 teachers, a guidance counselor, and one supplemental.</p>

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<p>wouldn't it be 6? 2 chem, 1 eng, 1 college prof, and 1 physics, and 1 gc</p>

<p>5-6 is tooo many. i hope the places you are applying to are tolerant of that. if they are competitive and receive a lot of apps, they might not like that at all, but if they are small then they could be okay with it.</p>

<p>I suggest calling the colleges and asking. you might have to swallow your pride and ask one of your recommender's to hold their letters until you are ready to update or something later and would like the schools to consider new activities you've partaken in since the application and this "new" reccomender. I think that's the most plausible.</p>

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<p>I have 5 w/ the GC</p>

<p>1 chem, 1 eng, 1 harvard prof, 1 gc, and then one of either college prof or physics teacher.</p>

<p>I asked the lady at CEE and she said 4 should be fine for everywhere. I'm going to trust her because of 50 people, 48-50 get into MIT each year. Which should I use?!?</p>

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<p>eliminate either the english or chem i guess.</p>

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<p>english and chem are the two best and have already been sent. It's only between the physcis and univ. prof</p>

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<p>ooooo i think that the "like a God" comment may be a bit overbearing or something, id go with the prof</p>

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<p>Yeah having three from school might be excessive...</p>

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<p>Does the professor know you more personally than simply your average in his class? Also, what kind of university is the prof from? Would that have any impact on the adcoms' perspectives?</p>

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<p>He's from ASU and yeah he knows me pretty personally. I was the only one who got an A in either of the two classes I took with him (at least I think so. I'm sure about one though...), and he would always make up extra problems and stuff for me to do, as well as encourage me to submit problems to these like problem-journals.</p>