supplementary recommendations

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>does JHU particularly discourage or encourage applicants from submitting supplementary recommendations?</p>

<p>i.e. from mentors</p>

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<p>they said they only want a max of 4 recommendations, including one from a counselor and one from a teacher.</p>

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<p>they said they encourage 2 teacher recs I think though...</p>

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<p>i submitted a supp one from my piano teacher...i dont think there was a problem with that</p>

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<p>nanaiju, wat was ur intended major?</p>

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<p>biology, and i think second choice was neuroscience
i sent in a cd with the supp rec, but im not doing double major with music</p>

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<p>for a supplementary rec, did you guys just ask for a letter without a form to fill out?</p>

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<p>For my supplementary teacher rec I used the same form as the first teacher rec....</p>

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<p>my extra recommender isn't a teacher though...</p>

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<p>check the old threads...</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1277962#post1277962%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1277962#post1277962&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Isnt there some story that goes around the admissions office about a kid that submitted 90 recommendations or something?</p>

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<p>yep... on my tour they talked about the guy...</p>

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<p>haha thats just ridculous. wouldnt common sense tell u not to do that?</p>

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<p>^^ I'm assuming the guy didn't get in...</p>

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<p>67 letters and no she didn't get in...</p>

<p>...or is that just an Admissions Urban Legend???</p>

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<p>to think of all the money he wasted on mailing them..:D</p>

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<p>how bad is it if i get my recommendation from a freshman teacher?
but i was his lab assistant in my junior year.
this is not for JHU but for other colleges as well.
some college require teacher recs from 11 or 12th grade only, but im not talknig about those schools.
im talking about schools that dont necessarily have rec restrictions.</p>

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<p>i think it wouldnt make much of a difference. a rec from a freshman teacher is almost as good as a rec from a teacher who taught you in 11th and 12th.
but this is what i think. someone like laxfan would know better.</p>

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<p>thanks.
laxfan can u help me?</p>

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<p>read old posts...</p>

<p>"(4) In selecting your teacher recommendation, the adcoms strongly encourage that the teacher be a junior or senior year teacher. If selecting a freshman or sophomore year teacher, it should only be as an additional letter of recommendation."</p>