<p>Is it ok to have 2 teacher recs, one extra rec, and the supplemental letter from family/peer? Will that be too many?</p>
<p>It won’t help at all you know that. It is only used to help the adcom understand what your personality is like. They don’t evaluate the extra recommendation with your application.</p>
<p>But a rec from like a professor u worked with counts as an extra rec right? instead of the supplements</p>
<p>I don’t think your mom has taught you any course in high school nor does your mom works at your high school. Also your mom is your parent, that falls into the category of parents. However, it doesn’t hurt to have your mom write one, it just will be a supplement. Duke separates the high school teacher recommendation, the counselor recommendation and the other recommendations. They won’t help because not every one has parent that has a faculty and thus it would be unfair.</p>
<p>I did not work for my Mom -_-</p>
<p>I’m just asking whether an additional rec is different from the supplemental letter</p>
<p>and my bad for poor wording of the question…All three are separate things</p>
<p>While this doesn’t apply to the OP, generally, conventional wisdom says that you shouldn’t try to cram recommendations into your app. </p>
<p>Understand that these letters only make up a part of your app. At some point, adding more letters to your file won’t really make a difference at all.</p>
<p>Oh I thought you were talking about your mom because on your previous post you asked about your mom who is a faculty.</p>
<p>Right well I don’t see how it can hurt as long as it shows a different side of you.</p>
<p>I’m having my brother write mine. He knows me better than anyone else I can think of and can show a lot more insight on who I am than my guidance counselor can. My class started out with 800 students freshmen year (we’re now down to 546, go figure lol) so I don’t really know the counselor for my grade well. I have a feeling all she’s gonna have to say is that I took hard classes and wanted to take harder classes but my schedule wouldn’t work. My brother on the other hand can talk about my interests and how I manage to keep up with him in intelligent discussions on various subjects. Sure they don’t technically evaluate it as part of the app, but I don’t see how it couldn’t help.</p>