<p>The email invite for the Regents scholarship mentioned that it's optional to bring reference letters. Do you guys plan to bring yours? I suppose I have good reference letters from my teachers, but probably not stellar. Wonder if it's worth the efforts. </p>
<p>Any thoughts there? Thanks.</p>
<p>I definitely plan on bringing some, but I would stick with maybe two of the strongest ones. </p>
<p>I have a total of four written, but I’ll probably weed out two of them, lol.</p>
<p>Ask around for another set of recommendations and let the recommender know this is for a huge scholarship. You should bring recommendations because they will only add to your application (Berkeley uses the *positive *or *neutral * approach, you are never *dinged *for anything).</p>
<p>i would definitely bring a letter of rec. as a word of caution, they ask you to write down a couple of your prospective majors and they claim that you’re interview will be with professors in that field…they are lying. i got matched with a professor who’s in a field that i’d never be interested in, and it was definitely one of the worst interviews i’ve ever had. i came outta there thinking there was no way that i was getting the scholarship. so i think the letter of rec was definitely what pushed me over the edge. i would also recommend getting a separate letter of rec (it sounds as though you’re planning on using one that your teachers/counselors wrote when you were initially applying to schools? i told my teachers/counselors that this was for a specific scholarship at a specific school, so they rewrote the letter to cater to that. good luck!</p>