<p>For USC, the application says that 0 teacher recommendations are required but 3 are allowed. Should I get a teacher recommendation for it? How much of a difference does having or not having one make?</p>
<p>Not having letter of recs won’t hurt your chances, but I don’t think they can boost your chances a lot either. </p>
<p>The point of recommendations is for adcoms to get to know you better but from a different perspective. So if there’s a teacher that knows you really well, it wouldn’t hurt asking him/her for one. </p>