<p>What do you guys think about sending additional letters or rec to ivy-leagues? When would this be appropriate?</p>
<p>I reckon it’s most appropriate when you have achieved something major i.e. I’m applying to Penn and have had a huge 3 year internship so i’m sending in a rec from my boss.</p>
<p>If you’ve done something big research-wise or job-wise or even extra-curricular-wise, then send one in. Otherwise, it will be redundant and irrelevant. Supplementary recs should focus on something that cannot be obtained elsewhere on your app, or from other recs.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>There is no right or wrong. It’s about your future, your education.
Send in any additional recommendation if you feel like to.
What Audrey is very true. If you want that to bolster your chance, make sure the additional LOR is worth for reading, meaning that the person who wrote the LOR has something speical to say about you. </p>
<p>Additional LOR need NOT to be a teacher or a school staff at all.</p>
<p>Don’t neccesarily agree with PP. If they ask for 2 and you provide 3, the first question an admissions officer would ask is “why?” If there is not a compelling reason, then I think it would play against you. There is an Academy Award given for editing and if you put yourself in the place of an overworked Admissions Officer how do they feel about given more to read? They ask for a 1,000 word essay, the applicant makes it 1,500 words. Unless the story is unbelievably compelling, I believe that it works against you.</p>
<p>Well, the essay is quite a different story.
If it says 1000 as a limitation, students should by all means limit it to around 1000 - 1200.</p>
<p>The LOR, however, usually is denote with "minimum requirement: 2 (say in this case)
True. If you just send in a poor LOR, then obviously it’s going to be discarded, and can hurt your chance by a some very tiny fraction.</p>