<p>NOTE: I am applying as a first-year, freshman undergraduate.</p>
<p>Does Notre Dame require 1 counselor recommendation + 1 teacher recommendation, or 1 counselor recommendation + 2 teacher recommendations?</p>
<p>The website says they only need 1 teacher rec, but my friend said he had to submit 2 for Early Action.</p>
<p>Help anyone? :)</p>
<p>I think that they only require one, but I went ahead and submitted two for EA also..</p>
<p>I only submitted one EA, so you'll be fine either way. Though I do remember the admissions rep really stressing the the admissions office hates receiving extra rec letters, especially when they don't add anything new to the application. If your teachers are basically going to write the same complimentary letter, I would advise only sending one.</p>
<p>Whatever recommendation you send, make sure it is an outstanding one. It's better to get one really good one than two mediocre ones. That being said, even two great ones that say the same exact thing would probably irritate the admissions people. My daughter sent two. One was from her high school English teacher and the other was from the director of a program she did science research for. So, the two were able to highlight different aspects of my daughter. If there isn't something extraordinary to add in the second recommendation, I would send the one.</p>
<p>D applied EA, and she sent recs from a math/science teacher and an English teacher AND one other - executive director of a particular volunteer group. Pretty much she couldn't quite make up her mind between the two teachers and had no way of knowing what the recs said - similar or not, outstanding rec or not. When she visited ND the ad rep said that sending more than one was okay, as long as it was reasonable - seems someone sent 80 (not kidding). Anyway she decided that if the two school recs + one was too many, then so be it. She got admitted.</p>
<p>My D only submitted 1 teacher rec & 1 counselor rec. She applied EA and was admitted.
Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Gymmom2007</p>
<p>I was accepted EA and only submitted 1 teacher and 1 counselor recommendation. The second teacher I had write recs for other schools really couldn't highlight anything that the first teacher and the counselor wrote about, and I didn't want to bother the admissions people.</p>