Two LORs from same job? Forum

[jonc4]

I have two LORs from the same job and one from a former professor. I was planning on using one from the job and one from the professor for all of my apps, but I see now that some schools recommend three letters. Should I just submit two letters, or send all three? The ones from the same job probably don't say much that's substantively different.

[AreJay711]

If they say pretty much the same thing you should probably go with just 2.

[jonc4]

To clarify, I don't know what they say. I just assume they say similar things since I didn't do particularly different things for the two people.

[JakeL]

I've used three from the same job and it hasn't been a problem yet...

[jonc4]

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

[rinkrat19]

I think it depends on what your other options are.

Personally, I'm using 3 LORs from my current job. One is my former supervisor/current department director, one is my former director who left this summer, and one is the director of a different department, with whom I serve on two committees. The 3rd guy wrote a school-specific LOR, however, so I'm only using his once. (Bummer, b/c it's great.)

I've been here almost 4 years, so if I went to my previous job and asked for LORs from my bosses there, they'd really have to scrape their memories for anything much to write. And I'm 8 years out of UG, so there's no way I'm going to find a professor who remembers me.