W&M Additional Recommendation number

Colleges and Universities A-Z College of William and Mary
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<p>I'm aware that in addition to the guidance counseler rec (which I believe is the school report on the common app?), we are suggested to submit at most 2 additional recommendations. I was wondering if they the officers would be particularly annoyed if I gave 3. My junior year grades were atrocious and I DO need to some how compensate more or less more or less for this.</p>

<p>In addition to a counseler rec, I wanted to get</p>

<p>1 from my Debate team coach who has known me for 4 years and has seen me grow up.
1 from my English teacher (and ENHS sponsor) who could assess me as a student and leader.
1 from my sophomore year AP spanish teacher who could talk very positively about my excellence and fluency in the language.</p>

<p>I want to show W&M my interest in international relations so I think Debate, Spanish (knowledge in foreign languages), and academics would be a useful combo for me. All of them are great recs that I believe would provide unique information that is not overlapped by one another.</p>

<p>HOWEVER it exceeds their recommended limit for recs by one. </p>

<p>What should I do?</p>

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<p>We do ask that if you can, send no more than two letters plus the recommendation from your counselor. We appreciate your desire to share with us as much as you can but we have to get all of the applications reviewed in a short amount of time and if everyone sends three plus letters it may inhibit our ability to review the applications in a timely manner. So if you can decide on two of the three that would be great.</p>

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<p>Yea I’ll do 2 then. Thanks very much</p>