<p>Do you have to have someone write recommendations for you? If so, who should write them and how many of them do you need to have? I saw this in a book I read and I have also seen hints at it on this forum.</p>
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<p>In addition to the required recommendations I had three.</p>
<p>You need one English and one Math teacher recommendation from either your junior or senior year. My AFA counselor told me that I should obtain my third recommendation from a science teacher. He told me that it might become a requirment that you get your third recommendation from a science teacher for class 2011 and above.</p>
<p>You really don't need any more recommendations past the ones they ask for. In fact some would advise against it.</p>
<p>In special circumstances I would recommend more. For instance, I had my college honors academic advisor write one, and I believe that helped.</p>
<p>What do you mean in "special circumstances"?</p>
<p>In my example, I've been in college two years. While it's not required to have a recommendation, I got one from college.</p>
<p>Also, say you're an Eagle Scout or somesuch, having a recommendation from your Scout leader would be a good idea.</p>
<p>Basically anyone who has seen you perform in some type of leadership position, whether it be academically or physically. I personally don't think it would hurt to send 3 or 4 recs in, especially if they are all from meaningful sources. I recieved one from my ROTC CO, the manager from the restaurant I've worked at for the past 4 years, and my high school principal.</p>
<p>When my son was preparing his packets for our Senator and Congressman, the Senator's staff was very specific to only provide three LOR. On the other hand, our Congressman's office said to send as many as we had. They wanted to see the variety of sources the applicants were requesting LOR from. Three less likely sources my son's LOR came from were 1) Pastors,
2) Work Camp (mission project) leaders and 3) guitar instructor (same teacher for 8 of the last 10 years). The first two certainly spoke of leadership traits witnessed in the last few years. However the MOC staff commented that the music instructor's LOR spoke of determination and goal setting that were demonstrated at the age of seven. </p>
<p>The LOR for the Academy were from his different teachers as outlined in the booklet.</p>
<p>I sent the extra recommendation to both the senator and the Academy.</p>
<p>It can be helpfull to give the letter writers a short resume.
(Your math teacher probably doesn't know you completed your Eagle Scout project while managing classes/sports too.)</p>
<p>Also, use sources who saw you grow in some way.</p>