<p>What if your guidance counselor or teacher writes a recommendation that has typos or is less than brilliant? Will that hurt my chances of getting accepted? I just ask because my guidance counselor is a moron but I am stuck with her.</p>
<p>nah. gu is much more interested in u and ur character.</p>
<p>Thank you, I hope you are right.</p>
<p>Is there someone you can get to write you a recommendation that knows you well/better than the other two/more intelligent? If so, I would send that as an additional rec letter. In addition to the mandatory counselor and teacher ones, I got one from a different teacher, from the principal, and from my congressman. I thought it was a good idea initially, but now im thinking it might be too much... do you think it will hurt me/not help as much bc there are too many?</p>
<p>The impression that I get is that the letters should all reveal your character and academic qualities, and those qualities should remain consistent throughout all of your letters. The person must know you personally. When I toured Princeton, the admissions officer said, "If the President of the United States does not know you personally and could not speak knowledgeably about you as a person, he probably shouldn't be writing a letter on your behalf."</p>
<p>I was worried after the guidance counselor gave me a copy of her report and even my parents thought it was substandard. So I did send two other reports, one from my state senator who does know my family and another from a great teacher who has had me in several of his honors courses. Then I found out that a friend of the family who graduated from GU back in 1940 wanted to put in a good word and sent a letter that I didn't know about. He is a retired doctor and very well spoken. It's a lot of people, but hopefully GU will think that a lot of people think I'm a good fit for them. I know too many recs aren't good tho.</p>