4 Letters of Rec Forum
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4 Letters of Rec
What is TLS's advice on letters of rec? What if someone can get 4 (great) letters of rec? Would it be better to reduce it to 3?
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Re: 4 Letters of Rec
If you can get 4 great letters, send all 4 to the schools that will accept them. If any schools you are applying to have a limit of 2 or 3, send the ones you think are best. I sent 4 to several schools FWIW.
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Re: 4 Letters of Rec
Great as in they'll write great things about you or great as in they're Senators?
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great as in they'll write great things about me. Only one of them would be considered "famous" in their field, but we are very closepancakes3 wrote:Great as in they'll write great things about you or great as in they're Senators?
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Re: 4 Letters of Rec
I usually link to Yale's blog post on this subject.
http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissi ... ation.aspx
She tends to recommend 2-3, with a very heavy emphasis on the fact that a third or fourth letter of mediocre (or even just good) is worse than two/three amazing letters.
http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/admissi ... ation.aspx
She tends to recommend 2-3, with a very heavy emphasis on the fact that a third or fourth letter of mediocre (or even just good) is worse than two/three amazing letters.
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