Recommendations redux

<p>I've looked through previous threads, yet none of them really answered my question: </p>

<p>I am submitting (or at least plan on submitting) 4 recommendations - 2 teachers, 1 supplementary and 1 counselor.</p>

<p>Northwestern only recommends 1 teacher and requires 1 counselor.</p>

<p>Is this too much? NU doesn't explicitly forbid/discourage additional recommendations and I'm confident each rec will convey a different aspect of my personality, so should I just go ahead with it?</p>

<p>What do they say about supplemental information in general? I'm thinking its probably not a good idea to send four recs, mostly because they have to go through lots of other applications-if everyone sent double the # of recs they'd go crazy! I'd suggest keeping them for if you are waitlisted or something.</p>

<p>Anyone else have thoughts on this?</p>

<p>In the info sessions they recommend just the required two, and say that three is okay, but really beyond three they aren't going to take them into as much consideration.</p>