<p>I am a little confused on the concept of letters of rec, particularly ones that are supplementary to the required. I understand that you invite teachers and a counselor through the common app, but how are others sent? I am getting a letter of rec from a family friend who is an alum of my desired school, a current student who was my leader at a medical leadership camp, and my boss. But how are those three sent? Do they send them to me first and I send them to the school or how does it work? And what if they write me one and I decide not to use it? Any help would be greatly appreciated! </p>
<p>Many schools explicitly say NOT to send additional, and many of the rest accept only ONE additional. That said, there is a place in the common app to put in the email address of an additional person. That person is then invited by the common application to send in a rec. Under no conditions should the letter pass through your hands (or your email)</p>
<p>Okay thanks! Yeah I knew that I signed some sort of agreement on the common app that said I chose not to be able to read them so I figured I shouldn’t get them. Actually this school accepts and considers additional letters, and meaningful ones have been shown to benefit applicants. This is because they only allow one teacher rec, so they let students send others. </p>
<p>I would advise not to send three extra letters. Think of all the thousands of essays and recs that admissions officers have to read. They don’t want to be bogged down with five letters from you. Send one additional letter. </p>
<p>The answer to your orig question is: you can xerox addit rec letters and mail them or scan and send them. </p>
<p>The answer you seem to be resisting is: DON’T send 3 addit rec letters except for maybe your boss. 1) alum relative: worthless. You’re just lucky. What does this alum have to say about YOU other than you happen to share some genetic material? Worthless rec unless she’s a multi-million dollar donor. 2) current student: was your leader for a few weeks? So what? (my god I hope it was the Nat’l Acad future physicians scam thing) You behaved and did a good show for a few weeks. Fine if you’re applying for a summer job. Worthless for college application. what perspective does this student have w/other students? very little.</p>
<p>EDIT: I see you actually attended the National Student Leadership Conference for pre meds at NU. Makes your student counselor/leader’s"rec letter" doubly useless. <a href=“Congratulations! You Are Nominated. It’s an Honor. (It’s a Sales Pitch.) - The New York Times”>Congratulations! You Are Nominated. It’s an Honor. (It’s a Sales Pitch.) - The New York Times;
<p>It’s run by the same outfit as the Natl Acadd of Future Physicians. <a href=“Envision EMI - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envision_EMI</a></p>
<p>Also if the scammer group NSHSS tells its members that they are invited to all Envision EMI programs, you KNOW you’re in trouble.</p>
<p>Additional letters aren’t usually very helpful. In my D2’s case she got one from an academic activity coach who was also a grad of the college she sent the letter to. </p>
<p>If you do have a situation where an extra letter makes sense (very few in my opinion), ask your school guidance counselor if they can attach to the common app for you, and how the GC should get the letter. It is not the norm for the student to read these letters.</p>