<p>is it OK/appropriate to send three teacher evaluations...(to Cornell, specifically CAS)
i am considering this because i feel that each will provide a meaningful protrait of me as student.</p>
<p>yeah, it's always OK, and as long as the extra serves value and won't be redundant, it is appropriate. I sent an employer/Taekwondo Master recommendation and a summer professor rec too.</p>
<p>Admissions people don't care if you send more than 2? I know that my guidance counselor told me that if you send more than 2 admissions people will be upset and not want to read all of them. They will simply read 2 at random, and if those aren't your best 2, then that is too bad. I suppose it could make sense only because everyone could send like 5 if they wanted to, but do admissions people have the time for everyone to do that? Is that not the purpose of the 2 letter suggestion? Because I know 1 is like a bare minimum, so why do they suggest 2 specifically instead of just "more than 1"?</p>
<p>i dont think they'll be upset and totally ignore the extra submission. like sparticus said.. 3 is okay if the 3rd extra one proves to show something that wasn't shown in the first 2.</p>
<p>i'm planning to get another one from my 2 year employer.</p>
<p>cornell will read everything you send them...I assume this is within reason. They probably won't read a 40 page essay on you, but if you send 5 extra recs, they'll get read. 5 extra recs would probably result in a lot of redundancy, but you could do it theoretically if you were crazy...</p>
<p>Cornell receives an average of 4-6 recommendations from each applicant and the person who gave the info session at Cornell said that at one time, she saw an applicant who sent in 40 recommendations! Of course, the more you send in, the more watered down each of those recommendations will seem like because they do not have time to read all 40 of them. What they do is that they pick out some of them and you just have to hope for the best that the ones the picked out are the outstanding ones.
Of course, that only applies when you send me like 20+ recommendations, if you send in around 4-6, I'm sure they read all of it.</p>
<p>Completely fine. I actually submitted four, and they couldn't have minded too much, because I'm at cornell.</p>
<p>My first recommendation was from my biology teacher, my perspective major.</p>
<p>My second recomendation from my math teacher, a teacher I had for multiple years that knew me very well and what I could do academically.</p>
<p>The third from my band instructor, who could comment on my extracuricular activities.</p>
<p>The fourth from my psychology professor, adjuct faculty to the community college and retired west point professor, who knew me since kindegarden through my church, so he focused on my community service that I have done through church.</p>
<p>As long as they are all significantly different, three will be fine.</p>
<p>for engineering do we need a humanities rec?</p>
<p>StPlayrXtreme: fyi, that's prospective, not perspective. </p>
<p>confidential: I don't believe cornell required any specific field distribution on it's recs in any college.</p>
<p>haha, thanks.</p>
<p>typos suck, but usually no one picks them out, you're not an english major are you? Just kidding. . .</p>
<p>no i just brought it up because it seemed more like a misuse/hearing of a similar word rather than a typo. Just meant it in a helpful way, not the way people say it when you screw up and the in the middle of a flame war :D. I ignore all the typos here usually.</p>