<p>Lately I've been thinking about who I should get to write my recommendation letters. Who do most people get to write their recommendations? How many recommendation letters do college's want? Also can you have someone outside of school write a recommendation letter for you?</p>
<p>I'll be organizing a group of teachers and students to take a trip to an orphanage in Africa for like a 1 week educational camp. We will be teaching the people in the orphanage. I was thinking I could get someone from the orphanage to write one for me. Of course they would be like the coordinator of the orphanage or something. Would this appeal to college's? Would it stand out?</p>
<p>I was also thinking of including a video of my week in Africa and pictures in my college application. I'm pretty sure I would use this as one of my essays too. So would this stand out? </p>
<p>I've already established a non profit organization for African orphanages where the africans make jewlery from natural resources they have and I distribute them for sale in the U.S and all the profit goes to the orphanages.</p>