<p>Basically I have about 8 schools that I am applying to and have about 8 teachers and 2 non-teachers who would write me a recommendation. However it seems that you only need 2 recommendations that you just have a teacher modify. If I can get a greater variety of recommendations to send to different schools should I do so?</p>
<p>Adcom does not like overwhelmed with recommendation letters as they receive tens of thousands applications each year and multiple that number for recommendation. Most schools set a limit of LOR some do not even accept LOR. You better check to make sure you are within limit. Also, only pick those would cover different aspects of you.</p>
<p>Technically, you could ask all eight and then send smaller groups of them to different schools (ex. Teacher rec a and teacher rec b go to school a, teacher rec c and teacher rec d got to school b, etc.) but eight is a lot. Try to cut down to 3 or 4 and then you can have different combos of those for different schools. Take into consideration what billcsho said, he or she is right.</p>
<p>Ok well with 10 recommendations and 8 schools then I can make like 120 combinations of 3 letters so wouldn’t I be practically limitless on combinations?</p>
<p>YOU don’t want to sort through 10 recommendations. YOu’re telling us that among those ten, at this moment you don’t know who will write the strongest recommendations? That’s nuts. I’d only ask the two strongest (maybe 3) and thank the others. They actually have better things to do than to spend an hour to give you something you’ll ultimately just bin.</p>