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Waitlist LOR question

Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 4:28 pm
by Rlabo
Hey guys,

Quick question about submitting additional LORs to a school one's waitlisted at. Is sending more than one typically considered overkill or is 2-3 fine? For Penn they clearly stated they only wanted one, but didn't see much of instruction from other schools. For reference, the schools I'm waitlisted at are all in the lower half of the t14.

Re: Waitlist LOR question

Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 4:17 pm
by simplythebest
Quality > Quantity.

Re: Waitlist LOR question

Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 5:14 pm
by leepokman
I think maybe one more would be ok, but anything more than that would be too much.

Re: Waitlist LOR question

Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 5:23 pm
by Rlabo
simplythebest wrote:Quality > Quantity.
why not both? I guess the question is when is too much of a good thing bad thing

Re: Waitlist LOR question

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 1:38 pm
by simplythebest
My point is that if you're sending in many (mediocre) letters of recommendations, it probably wouldn't help your case much. But if you are sending in a few additional (great) letters of recommendations, then it would help, I suppose.