<p>If I try to transfer after my freshman year, do most top 25 universities require one letter of recommendation or two?</p>
<p>twooooo (ten characters) save for UCLA & Cal (only schools in top 25 that I know of that don't require recs at all...because they're public of course)...</p>
<p>Depends. NYU requires 1. Penn requires 2. UT Austin doesnt require anything.</p>
<p>Northwestern only requires 1</p>
<p>dumb question, but I'm assuming you can't use one from HS? That basically means you HAVE to develop a relationship with a professor in your first semester or so if you want a recommendation.</p>
<p>Yes, KingJames, you really do need to do your best to develop such a relationship. Most transfer requirements assume you are coming in as a Junior - hence the two college recommendation requirement. But they still would like to see it for those coming in after only freshman year. You can explain why you only have one and get the other from another source, but it's not the best plan.</p>
<p>You can also have a TA/prof jointly write the recommendation if you have a good TA relationship in a large class. Colleges understand that situation.</p>
<p>UT is by far the best...no essays!!!! no letters of recommendation!!! good for me...not for OOS people.</p>
<p>UT is top twenty five? are we going by USWNR?</p>
<p>mccombs is...and that would be the UT i'm referring to, but NO the rest of UT is not top 25.</p>
<p>**for my northwestern app it has to be someone that you have known for at least a yr i believe, so i got one of my high school teachers to write it</p>
<p>err.....UT Austin does have essays.</p>
<p>brand_ has a good point. there are a number of great schools which are "point and click" apps - all on-line, all "by the numbers", no essays, no recs (or recs optional). UMich, McGill, Purdue, St. Louis U are some examples. (Yes, there is life beyond the Ivies and the UC's).</p>
<p>ya you're right mishra UT did have a very easy 1 page essay, but compared to the other schools I'm lookin at it didn't feel like I was really doing much for essays. It's almost all based on grades/recommendations. As a Texan, I can say that with confidence. Who got into McCombs from Texas...the people with 3.9-4.0 GPAs that took the prereqs. That is easy! I like it!</p>
<p>UT-Austin is nowhere near the top 25.</p>
<p>Like I said - McCombs - when I think of UT, I try not to think of the rubbish...there are a couple very good schools at UT.</p>
<p>Oh please... even the good departments at UT are overrated in Texas. I remember my high school days: so many students wanted to be admitted at BHP. BHP does not even come close to Wharton, Sloan, and such.</p>
<p>I never said they were as good as Wharton or Sloan. I'm not gonna argue about you with something as trivial as this since I don't even wanna go to McCombs, it's my safety. McCombs is highly ranked, regardless of what individual opinions about it may be.</p>
<p>i agree with nspeds. ut-austin is way too overrated.
it doesn't even come close to the elite publics such as michigan, ucla, cal, and uva.</p>
<p>i too agree with that statement, which is why i'll be getting out of texas. But I still respect McCombs and would have no problem going there if I didn't get in anywhere else.</p>
<p>Of the schools I applied to, only Duke had two. Columbia, Cornell, JHU and CMU all required only one, though I think some also required a dean/advisor rec.</p>