Reccs advice...apprecaited, thanks.

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<p>Hey, I am shadowing a surgeon and volunteering in a hospital everyday for 3 hours in my gap year while taking part-time classes. </p>

<p>I am planning on submitting several things:</p>

<p>1.) 2 high school reccs and 1 guidance counselour recc
2.) Dance teacher recc with dvd supplement
3.) Letter from Boss (School Principal) I worked for two years in helping organize and working for two summers. Very good RECC</p>

<p>For GAP YEAR, I would like to provide another perspective on what I have been doing.</p>

<p>Thus, I am wondering if submitting:</p>

<p>1.) Hospital Volunteer Recc signed by surgeon I had shadowed with plus Dean of hospital.
2.) Academic Recc regarding my part-time classes in Bio and Chemistry. I will have had the chance to see cadavers and other need things. He will clarfiy my depth in science and other work.
PS> I will still be eligible to apply as an incoming frosh because my credits are less than 12 credit hours which is great. </p>

<p>Total Reccs/Letters: 7</p>

<p>I hope that this is legit because I am taking a gap year and I need to describe both my experiences in high school and my year off.</p>

<p>Please give me inputs. I believe that RECCS/Letters are really important to make or break you when you have great stats competing for top schools. In addition, I hope that these reccs are reasonable in the sense that though they are large in number, 7, but they provide different scopes on my character.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>That's fine if the school allows it. Many colleges, however, notably the Ivies, don't want more than 2 teacher recs and a GC rec and they often get annoyed when you send additional info because they have to read it. The issue is addressed in one of those secret admissions books.</p>

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<p>other inputs?</p>

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<p>Way to many recs. This is discussed in several books and articles, it just makes you look insecure. You can maybe sneak in one extra besides the required ones for a particular school but that would be as far as I'd stretch it. I can't remember where I read it (maybe someone else can) about the admissions people sitting around the table laughing at the kid who sent a crazy amount of recs( he was rejected).</p>