<p>Aw I’m sorry to hear that :-/ . See, the second English teacher’s recommendation was originally supposed to be from my physics teacher, who I had asked at the beginning of October whether or not he felt comfortable writing me a recommendation. He said yes, but the week of the deadline, he told me he still hadn’t finished it and would “get to it on the weekend” along with three other ones. Luckily my English teacher was kind enough to whip me up one in like 3 days. I hope your other recommendation was to your liking!</p>
<p>Oh yeah I hate when that happens! I think my math one turned out pretty good, I still have to read it sometime but the teacher liked me despite my complete lack of math skills and doing pretty terribly in the class itself!</p>
<p>It’s really a judgment call – if you’re going to make the adcoms read through 5 separate letters, they better all say different things and give a breadth of detailed information about you. If a letter is generic or says nothing new, scrap it. Personally, I had one rec from my English teacher, one from my Physics teacher (it’s usually good to show breadth by having a humanities rec and a science rec of some sort), one from my GC, and one extra letter from my school’s old GC.</p>
<p>I personally think “No more than four” is a good heuristic, because three is plenty if one of the recs happens to be lukewarm or no well-written, and four is probably enough to give a pretty detailed and variegated insight to your character. I’d be hardpressed to argue that the adcoms wouldn’t have a good idea about you after even three recs… at a certain point, I imagine they get the idea.</p>
<p>i hope i didnt ruin my chances by making it seem like im one dimensional :-/. if i were to send in another one, it would be through snail mail right?</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, max. And yeah, if you send in another rec, it would be through snail mail, although at this point I’m guessing it’s getting pretty late in the game. I’d only do it if it were from someone really significant and who can give some good insight on you.</p>
<p>The last rec I sent in from my old GC (the 4th one) was through snailmail, and it reached them just fine – of course, I sent mine in early January when applying RD, I believe. It’s probably pretty late in the game for ED, but it definitely won’t hurt you to try. Send it in and hope for the best.</p>
<p>Ok thanks. Would I need to include that evaluation form or is a letter sufficient?</p>
<p>I just sent the letter standalone without another evaluation form.</p>
<p>Cool thanks. I just had my alumni interview and she told me not to worry about it.</p>
<p>Where did you find those damned evaluation forms?! I think all my recs were stand alones!</p>
<p>geishadoll, they should be on the commonapp website. if your teacher successfully submitted a rec online, i think he/she would also have filled out those evaluation forms. if your teacher opted to do it offline, you need to print it separately from the commonapp website for your teacher to fill out. think thats how it is</p>
<p>Oh okay thanks! All my teachers sent it in online, although the two extra outside recs that I had went with snail mail. Oh well.</p>