<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>