One of my top schools requires two LORs. The first has to be from either a teacher or counselor and the other can be from anyone.
The thing that gets me is that they also recommend you only attach two. I go to a large public school so literally the only interaction I have ever had with my HS counselor is a 20 minute video call where he asked me basic questions like describe myself in 3 words to which I gave basic BS answers like hard working and motivated.
I would like to attach a LOR from my science teacher and one from my varsity baseball coach instead but for some reason when ever I add a new school my counselor letter of recommendation always automatically attaches itself to my common application. And there is no way to remove it, I can unassign teachers but I can’t unassign my counselor.
I feel like the counselor rec will not only not help me but also possibly hurt me because my school is VERY competitive and I think he will talk about the average GPA being like a 3.9 whereas I have a 3.4.
This school is a low level reach. My SAT is on par with their 75 percentile but my 3.0 UW is far below their 3.6 avg.
Also I would just leave the counselor LOR and attach both my teacher and coaches as well but I know sometimes admissions officers get mad when an applicant puts too much on their application and they reject them because they don’t feel like putting in the effort to read it all. Which is a real possibility for me since my GPA is so low that they might toss it out before even going through it.
Is there any way for me to remove his LOR from my common app? I emailed him about this five times over the past two weeks and he has not responded once and now school is out until Jan 4. The application deadline for this school is Jan 1.
Any help would be highly appreciated