<p>Does MIT encourage or discourage an extra recommendation letter (in addition to the 2 teacher evaulations)? I am thinking about whether or not to send in the recom letter that my volunteering director has written for me.</p>
<p>thx in a advance</p>
<p>My son's volunteer director mailed an unsolicited and very strong recommendation letter for my S's EA application. I have no doubt that it was favorably received by MIT. (S was accepted.)</p>
<p>Extra recommendations are fine. :)</p>
<p>only if the letters say something interesting and new about you. and i wouldn't send more than 2 extra.</p>
<p>I sent the regular letters from my teachers as well as a letter from the director of a summer program I attended...and because of the whole confidentiality thing, I had no idea what was in any of them...but it must have been good, because I got accepted. So I say go for it.</p>
<p>I sent in one extra rec from my science olympiad coach and another from my professor. I think that MIT is really receptive to extra recs, but as you will be told many times, they are only helpful if they offer a DIFFERENT perspective. In other words, a third teacher rec is not useful.</p>
<p>how abt
2 teacher
1 counselor
1 principal
??</p>
<p>obviously the 2 teachers and the 1 counselor is required. What input can your principal provide, that your other recs will not be able to testify to?</p>
<p>I THINK I sent MIT:</p>
<ol>
<li>required math/science teacher rec</li>
<li>required humanities teacher rec</li>
<li>required counselor rec</li>
<li>another math/science teacher rec</li>
<li>another math/science teacher rec</li>
</ol>
<p>I got in, I don't know if it helped or hurt. [I had a 3.93/4.00, 4.65/5.00, 4/450 rank, SAT M790 V650, but I was also getting looked at for football and wrestling which can help a lot.] I thought I remembered hearing that MIT didn't have problems with a lot of recommendations, but I don't know. I submitted the two extra mainly because the humanities teacher didn't know me too well and probably wrote a bad recommendation.</p>