<p>1) I know colleges don't like to receive extra letters of rec</p>
<p>BUT on commonapp it just said that I can invite 3 teachers- so I did- and they uploaded the letters</p>
<p>BUT my mentor from an internship I did last summer is offering to write me a letter of rec</p>
<p>AND I am applying for Marshall Business School</p>
<p>AND this was a business-y internship</p>
<p>AND USC is a reach for me</p>
<p>SO should I ask her to send in the letter?</p>
<p>-Would they not look at it?
-Would it hurt me?
-Would I ask her to send it to the admission office?
-When should it be sent by?</p>
<p>Well… if the letter is really, really good, and you are sure it will show some other aspect of you that your application doesn’t show, then I would take the risk.</p>
<p>@Bizziee Thanks! When you say “take the risk” do you mean that you know/heard that USC frowns upon extra letters of rec?</p>
<p>Well no but (at the admissions info. session) the representative did mention a kid who sent 33 recs…lol idk if he got in or not. I don’t think they would reject your simply for that, but I’m just saying that you should know it’s not…(how do i say it) expected?</p>
<p>Or (if you haven’t submitted your CA yet, you could add a sentence or two in the Additional Info section about why you are sending another letter.) </p>
<p>Multiply 50,000 students adding one extra letter of recommendation and you see what happens to the poor staff that has to read them. This question gets asked a lot. In rare cases, an extra letter might work (one not a lot of them). More than that smacks of desperation. And if the school said it was okay they’d be slammed.</p>
<p>Here’s what I think happens - they’ll look at your application first. Your letters of recommendation will be included on the Common App so it’s all digitized and easy for them to read via computer. Realize each file at most colleges gets multiple readers. If you send an extra letter it has to be digitized in order to go with your file. That means some person has to manually sort through all those letters and organize them first.</p>
<p>So unless your application really stands out - I don’t see how an extra letter would help. And if your application stands out, the letter really isn’t needed. The exception “might be” if the letter writer has something to say that is both amazing and backs up something on your Common App that might need clarification. But those cases are rare. IMHO</p>