<p>ummm thanks for you opinion even though the question was not directed towards you.</p>
<p>Let me make it more specific.</p>
<p>northrams,</p>
<p>did you feel akward giving them that many rec forms (8)? I mean i don't want to burden them and make then mad which in turn would result in a bad rec for me.</p>
<p>Also do you think 2 months is a good enough time for 10+ rec's?</p>
<p>well to be honest i did feel a little overdemanding at first, but i think by giving them a very well organized packet with two to three months to write the letters i prevented them from freaking out. i only got positive responses from my recommenders. i do think that the better you know the recommender, the more likely theyll be happy to write the recs no matter how many.</p>
<p>All teachers do is write one letter and copy it 10 times. They spend maybe 10 minutes writing basically the same thing on each of the rec forms. There is little difference between 5 and 10. don't worry about it.</p>
<p>claysoul is right on the money there. when u think about it, all they have to do is cut and paste the address on the top of the same letter, maybe change a word, and thats it. and honestly, the forms dont seem all that time consuming.</p>
<p>yeah.... thanks... </p>
<p>hey do you have a safety school?</p>
<p>my school has a transfer agreement with cornell, so thats gonna be my safety (i know thats one hell of a "safety," i got lucky with that one)</p>
<p>lucky bastard :)</p>
<p>I'm applying to cornell too. I like the fact that there are so many different kinds of classes.</p>
<p>I'm applying to 8 too...I think:</p>
<p>Yale
Harvard
Vassar
Stanford
Brown
Rice
Pomona (this is a huge maybe, because in 2003 they accepted only 3 transfers)
Columbia GS (I took a year off after high school and consequently can't apply directly to the College)</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd like to apply to pomona but I don't think I'm going to bother.</p>
<p>up4love: I took a year off after high school as well. What did you do?</p>
<p>Claysoul,</p>
<p>I lived in Paris for several months with my aunt and traveled the continent. What about you?</p>
<p>up40love: Did sort of the same thing, but also worked in Europe:-).</p>