I am taking a Introduction to International Relations course at the University of Pennsylvania this summer, and my instructor, who is a PHd candidate, kindly offered to write recommendation letters for anyone who asked. It was not a pre-college program, but instead a commuter program offered only to people who live close to UPenn for a cheaper cost.
I know it was a very short time period (5 weeks) where the instructor probably did not get to know a lot about me, but he also said that we should tell him what we want him to write about in his recommendation (pretty nice guy lol). I already have two teacher recommendations and a counselor recommendation. The reason I want this other recommendation was because in the UPenn info session, the ad rep said that they look for teachers to talk about how a student asks for help and is always intellectually curious. During this course, I asked him questions about the content after class and was pretty active in class. He was also very impressed with the progress I was making with my project, so he can probably say something about being hardworking. I doubt my other recommenders will talk about this at all because I am pretty quiet during the schoolyear. Is it too much/ unnecesary? I know adcoms hate too many recommendations and redundancy.