Letters of Recommendations -- Can somebody clarify this?

Applying to College
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<p>I’m a little confused about the whole Letter of Recommendation thing. I’m going to be applying to the following colleges:</p>

<p>CalTech
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
UC Los Angeles
UC Davis
CalPoly - SLO</p>

<li><p>How do I figure out how many letters of recommendations I need (I couldn’t find anything on their websites)?</p></li>
<li><p>How do I turn in the letter of recommendation? Do I mail it to them, include a digital copy with my online application? Can somebody please explain this as I’m quite confused as to how it works.</p></li>
<li><p>Is there a deadline or something? When do I turn it in?</p></li>
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<p>MUCH thanks in advance for any help I can get.</p>

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<p>Recos are a very confusing process. I know calstates and UCs don't require any, so the only one you would have to do is caltech. You give the form supplied by them along with a a stamped and addressed letter to your teacher to fill out and mail, also give them a thankyou note later, and they do the rest (hopefully). Caltech will also probably want a secondary school report, which is basically the same process with your counselor. Please investigate their website for more information, as I am by no means the definitive source.</p>

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<p>Caltech requires two letters of recommendation- one from a science/math teacher and one from a humanities teacher. </p>

<p>Rec form: <a href="http://admissions.caltech.edu/admissions/applying/CA_App_Teacher_Evaluationforms.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://admissions.caltech.edu/admissions/applying/CA_App_Teacher_Evaluationforms.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>List of application materials: <a href="http://admissions.caltech.edu/admissions/applying%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://admissions.caltech.edu/admissions/applying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I'm confused, what would be humanities teacher (What kind of classes?)?</p>

<p>So, I'm still a bit confused here. Do you NEVER send a letter of recommendation with UC's? Are you sure nobody else does? Everybody's always talking about getting a good letter of recommendation and what not...but if UC's don't even accept them...something's now right here.</p>

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<p>history/English/foreign language/psychology/etc.</p>

<p>According to their Common Data Sets, the UCs don't consider teacher recs. See C7.</p>

<p><a href="http://cds.berkeley.edu/pdfs/PDF%20wBOOKMARKS%2005-06.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://cds.berkeley.edu/pdfs/PDF%20wBOOKMARKS%2005-06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/campus/general/cds0506.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/campus/general/cds0506.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/cds/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://studentresearch.ucsd.edu/sriweb/cds/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.oir.uci.edu/cds/cds_menu.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.oir.uci.edu/cds/cds_menu.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/commondataset/cds20052006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/commondataset/cds20052006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://ucrapb.ucr.edu/institutional_planning/CDS/CDS.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ucrapb.ucr.edu/institutional_planning/CDS/CDS.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://bap.ucsb.edu/IR/UG_Info_Guide.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://bap.ucsb.edu/IR/UG_Info_Guide.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://planning.ucsc.edu/irps/OFFICE/cds_2005-06.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://planning.ucsc.edu/irps/OFFICE/cds_2005-06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>UCs DO NOT take ANY letters into consideration ... they will toss them into the shredder.</p>

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UCs DO NOT take ANY letters into consideration ... they will toss them into the shredder.

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Same goes with CSUs. That means Cal Poly SLO, which you have on your list</p>