<p>Are you allowed to submit more than one teacher recommendation? I don't think it's ever clearly stated that you can only submit one recommendation, though that's sort of implied...</p>
<p>yea im wondering this too...</p>
<p>most schools are two and then u can do one other odd one (coach, employer, elective teacher)</p>
<p>so I asked three of my teachers last year to do my recs (eng & soc teachers..and then for the other I had to do my spanish teacher bc shes in love with me) what would i do "sorry but im not using the rect u wrote for me"?? they already wrote them during the summer</p>
<p>you can send in as many recs as you want</p>
<p>You may send as many as you want, but at our NYU visit last year the admissions person said to limit them because they will only read a few and if you send a stack then they may not read the best ones or the ones that would benefit you the most. Any amount beyond 4 or 5 is useless and they probably won't get read.</p>
<p>very true.... i sent in 3 and it seemed to work, i got in</p>
<p>my d sent two very good ones and it worked for her!</p>
<p>i'm assuming when you say "very good ones" that you read them, and how? since our school kept them confidential and our teachers sent them to guidance & guidance mailed them without us being able to read them...</p>
<p>we did read them. Copies of all my d's recommendations were provided to her. It was ok with everyone and NYU doesn't care. I am glad we got to see them because she was able to choose the best ones to send and it was a major confidence booster for her to see what was said about her.</p>
<p>That's unfortunate...recommendations are suppose to be confidential. That's why you sign agreeing to waive your access to them.</p>
<p>actually, I can't see how it would have really made any difference at all. The recommendations certainly were not influenced by us seeing them. I am sure many recommendations are sent in as confidential, but they are not.</p>
<p>It could put pressure on teachers/evaluators to write a more favorable recommedation if they knew the student would be reading it. Just a thought, we don't really roll like that around here.</p>
<p>Same here, our school district actually has a policy against it ha. It goes again the principles of a genuine recommendation.</p>
<p>my school is verrry strict about letting ppl read rec letters. even if the teacher wants you to read the letter, we arent allowed to... because they want the teachers to give totally unbiased letters</p>
<p>there ya go, then , thats why it should be secret. A real, unbiased opinion, is what NYU wants. Not stuff you already read and approved. Later...</p>