<p>I know its a bit early to ask but im extremely anxious about applying to brown ED in the fall so im trying hard to prepare now</p>
<p>my counselor rec is going to be generic because i barely ever see him
and my two others will be my entreprenuship teacher because he runs deca which im the president and my AP lit teacher who loves me</p>
<p>I’m going to be an intern helping with research at UCONN over the summer in the humanities, so should i be asking for a letter of rec from that professor
and im going to be doing an internship with curriculum development at the corporate office of princeton review for a year so would it be smart to get an extra rec from one of those</p>
<p>Judging from your user name, you must REALLY want to go to Brown. Good for you. Your interest shows. </p>
<p>Anyways, as for your counselor, you better start seeing him more because the more your counselor knows you, the better your rec will be ... better as in it will be less generic and more about you. Generic recs aren't very helpful to admission officers who have seven minutes to read your file. </p>
<p>Make sure that your extra recs can reveal an extra dimension to who you are ... something that your other recs can't tell, because it is really extra work for the admission officer to read through all that material ... remember they spend hours reading through thousands of apps from nervous high school seniors just like you ... can you imagine how much work that is? Even I can't. </p>
<p>Remember that quality counts more than quantity, and the same holds true for college apps. </p>
<p>Colleges usually want to see recommendations from academic teachers, like English, history, science. I’m not sure an “entrepreneurship” teacher qualifies.</p>
<p>You don’t want to send too many. One extra is probably OK. One approach is that if you don’t get in ED, to then send extra recs. It is always a good idea to get recommendations, because you’ll never know when you’ll need them.</p>